Title The family, marriage, and radicalism in British women's novels of the 1790s : public affection and private affliction / Jennifer Golightly

Published Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Co-published by Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2012

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 165 p.) Series Transits: literature, thought & culture Transits (Bucknell University) Contents Contexts and subtexts -- Renovating the house: radical conceptualizations of family and marriage -- Desiring domesticity : sexual union and the hope of independence -- Maternity and the re-forming of the radical family -- Reformed masculinity and the revival of the marriage plot: female novels and radicalism after 1796 Summary "This book explores the ways in which five female radical novelists of the 1790s--Elizabeth Inchbald, Eliza Fenwick, Mary Hays, Charlotte Smith, and Mary Wollstonecraft--attempt to use the components of private life to work toward widespread social reform"--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Families in literature. Marriage in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English fiction English fiction -- Women authors Families in literature Marriage in literature Women and literature Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021680546 ISBN 9781611483611 1280657243 9781280657245 9786613634177 6613634174 1611483611

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