Representing Women and Female Desire from Arcadia to Jane Eyre

by Dianne Osland and Marea Mitchell

This book examines continuities and changes in narrative strategies deployed to deal with female desire in a broad range of fiction from the late sixteenth-century to the early nineteenth-century. By focussing on 'designing women' and the lengths to which they can and should go as agents of their desires, this book investigates the way generic and moral or social issues intersect in the depiction of female subjectivity. The book examines narrative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403943311
• ISBN13: 9781403943316
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"