Reading Daughters' Fictions 1709-1834: Novels and Society from Manley to Edgeworth (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521553957)

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
ISBN-10: 0521553954
ISBN-13: 9780521553957
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/14/1996
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.18w x 0.87d