1st Edition
Women Novelists and the Ethics of Desire, 1684–1814 In the Voice of Our Biblical Mothers
By Elizabeth Kraft
Copyright 2008
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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In Women Novelists and the Ethics of Desire, 1684-1814, Elizabeth Kraft radically alters our conventional views of early women novelists by taking seriously their representations of female desire. To this end, she reads the fiction of Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, Eliza Haywood, Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Smith, Frances Burney, and Elizabeth Inchbald in light of ethical paradigms drawn from... Read more
Contents: Introduction: in the voice of a woman; Matriarchal desire and ethical relation; Men and women in the garden of delight; Sexual awakening and political power; Hieroglyphics of desire; His sister's song; The forgotten woman; The Lot motif and the redaction of double desire; Conclusion: the last word; Works cited; Index.
Biography
Elizabeth Kraft is Professor of English at the University of Georgia, USA.
Prize: A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008 ’Kraft's fascinating, groundbreaking study concerns how early British women novelists depicted female sexual desire...Essential.’ Choice 'Women Novelists and the Ethics of Desire provides us with a rich vein of material and reflections to mine in future years.' Eighteenth-Century Fiction
