Reading Daughters' Fictions 1709-1834: Novels and Society from Manley to Edgeworth

by Caroline Gonda

Book Overview

Eighteenth-century diatribes against novels claimed that reading fiction produced rebellious daughters, fallen women and female nervous wrecks. In Reading Daughters' Fictions, Caroline Gonda draws on a wide range of novels and nonliterary materials of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century in order to examine changing representations of the father-daughter bond. She argues that domestic novels of family life and courtship, far from corrupting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052102384X
• ISBN13: 9780521023849
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"