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The first study to treat feminine compliance as something other than a passive, politically neutral exercise, Ingenuous SubjectionHelen Thompson recovers in this practice the domestic novel's critical engagement with the limits of Enlightenment...
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The first study to treat feminine compliance as something other than a passive, politically neutral exercise, Ingenuous SubjectionHelen Thompson recovers in this practice the domestic novel's critical engagement with the limits of Enlightenment modernity. Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Ingenuous Subjection and Feminine Political Difference -- Chapter 1. Boys, Girls, and Wives: Post-Patriarchal Power and the Problem of Feminine Subjection -- Chapter 2. Mushrooms, Subjects, and Women: The Hobbesian Individual and the Domestic Novel -- Chapter 3. "The Words Command and Obey": Pamela and Domestic Modernity -- Part II. Ingenuous Subjection and the Novel -- Chapter 4. Eliza Haywood's Philosophical Career: Ingenuous Subjection and Moral Physiology -- Chapter 5. Charlotte Lennox and the Agency of Romance: Ingenuous Subjection and Genre -- Chapter 6. Frances Sheridan's "disingenuous girl": Ingenuous Subjection and Epistolary Form -- Conclusion: "Marriage has bastilled me for life": Mary Wollstonecraft's Domestic Novel -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-268) and index
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""Chapter 5. Charlotte Lennox and the Agency of Romance: Ingenuous Subjection and Genre """"Chapter 6. Frances Sheridan's "disingenuous girl": Ingenuous Subjection and Epistolary Form ""; ""Conclusion: "Marriage has bastilled me for life": Mary Wollstonecraft's Domestic Novel""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""Acknowledgments""
