Gothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the Brontës

by Diane Long Hoeveler

Book Overview

As British women writers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries sought to define how they experienced their era's social and economic upheaval, they helped popularize a new style of bourgeois female sensibility. Building on her earlier work in Romantic Androgyny, Diane Long Hoeveler now examines the Gothic novels of Charlotte Smith, Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, Charlotte Dacre Byrne, Mary Shelley, and the Bront s to show how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271033614
• ISBN13: 9780271033617
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"