Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth, and patriarchal complicity
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1991
Verlag:
Oxford University Press, New York
Current feminist theory has developed powerful explanations for some women writers' rebellion against patriarchy. But other women writers did not rebel; rather, they supported and celebrated patriarchy. Examining the lives and selected works of two...
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Current feminist theory has developed powerful explanations for some women writers' rebellion against patriarchy. But other women writers did not rebel; rather, they supported and celebrated patriarchy. Examining the lives and selected works of two late eighteenth-century writers, Hannah More and Maria Edgeworth, this book explores what it means for a woman writer to identify with her father and the patriarchal tradition he represents. Kowaleski-Wallace exposes the psychological, social, and historical factors that motivated such an identification, and reveals the consequences that result from
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-229) and index. - Description based on print version record
1 Their Fathers' Daughters: An Introduction; 2 Milton's Bogey Reconsidered; 3 Hannah and Her Sister: Women and Evangelicalism; An Introduction to Maria Edgeworth; 4 Home Economics: Domestic Ideology in Belinda; 5 Good Housekeeping: The Politics of Anglo-Irish Ascendancy; 6 Monstrous Daughters: The Problem of Maternal Inheritance; 7 Coda: Charlotte Bronte and Milton's Cook; NOTES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W; Y.
