Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660–1727
Description
This book shows how early women novelists from Aphra Behn to Mary Davys drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to establish the novel as a genre. Fascinated by the problematic idea of a unified self underpinning modes of thinking, female novelists innovated narrative structures to interrogate this idea.
Keywords
FictionScienceHistoryPhilosophyHistory & SurveysSocial ScienceGender StudiesLiterary CriticismEuropeanModernLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & Comparative
2014Book
Author(s)Karen Bloom
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US
ISBN9781137389206
LanguageEnglish
