The rise of the woman novelist : from Aphra Behn to Jane Austen / Jane Spencer.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Blackwell, 1986.Description: xii, 225 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0631139168 (pbk.) :
  • 9780631139164 (pbk.)
  • 063113915X (hard) :
  • 9780631139157 (hard)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR 113 .S6 1986
Contents:
pt. 1. The woman novelist as heroine: 1. Wit's mild empire: the rise of women's writing -- 2. Three self-portraits -- 3. The terms of acceptance -- pt. 2. Heroines by women novelists: 4. Seduced heroines: the tradition of protest -- 5. Reformed heroines: the didactic tradition -- 6. Romance heroines, the tradiong of escape.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

pt. 1. The woman novelist as heroine: 1. Wit's mild empire: the rise of women's writing -- 2. Three self-portraits -- 3. The terms of acceptance -- pt. 2. Heroines by women novelists: 4. Seduced heroines: the tradition of protest -- 5. Reformed heroines: the didactic tradition -- 6. Romance heroines, the tradiong of escape.

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