Title Equivocal beings : politics, gender, and sentimentality in the 1790s : Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen / Claudia L. Johnson

Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 239 pages) Series Women in culture and society Women in culture and society. Contents Introduction: The age of chivalry and the crisis of gender -- Mary Wollstonecraft. The distinction of the sexes: the Vindications ; Embodying the sentiments: Mary and The wrong of woman -- Ann Radcliffe. Less than man and more than woman: The romance of the forest ; The sex of suffering: The mystseries of Udolpho ; Losing the mother in the judge: The Italian -- Frances Burney. Statues, idiots, automatons: Camilla ; Vindicating the wrongs of woman: The wanderer -- Jane Austen. "Not at all what a man should be!": remaking English manhood in Emma Summary In the wake of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke argued that civil order depended upon nurturing the sensibility of men--upon the masculine cultivation of traditionally feminine qualities such as sentiment, tenderness, veneration, awe, gratitude, and even prejudice. Writers as diverse as Sterne, Goldsmith, Burke, and Rousseau were politically motivated to represent authority figures as men of feeling, but denied women comparable authority by representing their feelings as inferior, pathological, or criminal. Focusing on Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen, whos Analysis English fiction Authors Women Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-231) and index Notes Print version record Subject Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 -- Criticism and interpretation Radcliffe, Ann, 1764-1823 -- Criticism and interpretation Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840 -- Criticism and interpretation Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 fast Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840 fast Radcliffe, Ann, 1764-1823 fast Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 fast Subject English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism Authorship -- Sex differences -- History -- 18th century Political fiction, English -- History and criticism Femininity in literature. Sentimentalism in literature. Sex role in literature. English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Authorship -- Sex differences LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English literature -- Women authors Authorship -- Sex differences English fiction English fiction -- Women authors Femininity in literature Political fiction, English Politics and literature Psychological fiction, English Sentimentalism in literature Sex role in literature Women and literature Engels. Letterkunde. Vrouwelijke auteurs. Sentimentalisme. Politiek. Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780226401799 0226401790 9780226401836 0226401839

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