The Courtship Novel, 1740-1820: A Feminized Genre

" The period from her first London assembly to her wedding day was the narrow span of autonomy for a middle-class Englishwoman in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. For many women, as Katherine Sobba Green shows, the new ideal of companionate marriage involved such thoroughgoing revisions in self-perception that a new literary form was needed to represent their altered roles. That the choice among suitors ideally depended on love and should not be decided on any other grounds was a p

Author: Katherine Sobba Green
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 01/03/1991
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780813117362

About the Author

Katherine Sobba Green teaches English at Auburn University.

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