Gone Girls, 1684-1901: Flights of Feminist Resistance in the Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century British Novel

by Nora Gilbert

In Gone Girls, 1684-1901, Nora Gilbert argues that the persistent trope of female characters running away from some iteration of 'home' played a far more influential role in the histories of both the rise of the novel and the rise of modern feminism than previous accounts have acknowledged. For as much as the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British novel may have worked to establish the private, middle-class, domestic sphere as the rightful (and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198876548
• ISBN13: 9780198876540
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"