Reading Daughters' Fictions 1709 1834: Novels and Society from Manley to Edgeworth (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521023849)

Eighteenth-century diatribes against novels claimed that reading fiction produced rebellious daughters, fallen women and female nervous wrecks. In Reading Daughters' Fictions, Caroline Gonda draws on a wide range of novels and nonliterary materials of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century in order to examine changing representations of the father-daughter bond. She argues that domestic novels of family life and courtship, far from corrupting female readers, helped to maintain familial and social order.

Author: Caroline Gonda,Gonda Caroline
ISBN-10: 052102384X
ISBN-13: 9780521023849
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/17/2005
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d