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Reading Daughters' Fictions 1709 1834: Novels and Society from Manley to Edgeworth

Reading Daughters' Fictions 1709 1834: Novels and Society from Manley to Edgeworth

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Book 19

Literary CriticismGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 0521553954
ISBN13: 9780521553957
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 14 1996
Pages: 310
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.18 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
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.

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