Reading Daughters' Fictions 1709-1834: Novels and Society from Manley to Edgeworth (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Reading Daughters' Fictions 1709-1834: Novels and Society from Manley to Edgeworth (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) Book

Eighteenth-century distribes against novels claimed that reading fiction produced rebellious daughters, fallen women and nervous female wrecks. In Reading Daughters' Fictions, Caroline Gonda draws on a wide range of novels and non-literary materials of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century in order to examine changing representations of the father-daughter bond. She argues that domestic novels of family life and courtship, far from corrupting female readers, helped to maintain familial and social order.Read More

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    Eighteenth-century diatribes against novels claimed that reading fiction produced rebellious daughters, fallen women and female nervous wrecks. In Reading Daughters' Fictions, Caroline Gonda draws on a wide range of novels and nonliterary materials of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century in order to examine changing representations of the father-daughter bond. She argues that domestic novels of family life and courtship, far from corrupting female readers, helped to maintain familial and social order.

  • 0521553954
  • 9780521553957
  • Caroline Gonda
  • 14 March 1996
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 309
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