Gender and Language in British Literary Criticism, 1660-1790

by Laura L. Runge

Book Overview

During the eighteenth century, British critics applied terms of gender to literature according to the belief that masculine values represented the best literature and feminine terms signified less important works or authors. Laura Runge contends however that the meaning of gendered terms like 'manly' or 'effeminate' changes over time, and that the language of eighteenth-century criticism cannot be fully understood without careful analysis of the gendered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521021456
• ISBN13: 9780521021456
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"