Women and Sexual Love in the British Novel, 1740-1880 A 'Craving Vacancy' | EKB DL

Home BookWomen and Sexual Love in the British Novel, 1740-1880 A 'Craving Vacancy'

Women and Sexual Love in the British Novel, 1740-1880 A 'Craving Vacancy'

Women and Sexual Love in the British Novel, 1740-1880 A 'Craving Vacancy'

Description

This text explores the ways in which four British novelists used and transformed the theme of women's relation to sexual love in the 18th and 19th centuries. It analyzes the moment in cultural history when gender roles, sexuality and literature met to become a new ideology.

Keywords

Literary CriticismModern19th CenturyFictionEuropeanEnglish, Irish, Scottish, WelshLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & Comparative

1996Book

Author(s)Susan Ostrov Weisser

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK

ISBN9780333630198

LanguageEnglish

SpringerLink Book

Similar Books

Representing Women and Female Desire From Arcadia to Jane Eyre

Representing Women and Female Desire From Arcadia to Jane Eyre

Fictions of Female Adultery 1684-1890 Theories and Circumtexts

Fictions of Female Adultery 1684-1890 Theories and Circumtexts

Women in the English Novel, 1800-1900

Women in the English Novel, 1800-1900

Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Love and the Novel Contemporary Romantic Fiction and Society

Love and the Novel Contemporary Romantic Fiction and Society

Austen, Eliot, Charlotte Bronte and the Mentor-Lover

Austen, Eliot, Charlotte Bronte and the Mentor-Lover

Science, Sexuality and Sensation Novels Pleasures of the Senses

Science, Sexuality and Sensation Novels Pleasures of the Senses

Feminine Subjects in Masculine Fiction Modernity, Will and Desire, 1870-1910

Feminine Subjects in Masculine Fiction Modernity, Will and Desire, 1870-1910

British Women Writers and the Profession of Literary Criticism, 1789-1832

British Women Writers and the Profession of Literary Criticism, 1789-1832

The Brother-Sister Culture in Nineteenth-Century Literature From Austen to Woolf

The Brother-Sister Culture in Nineteenth-Century Literature From Austen to Woolf