The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen

by Mary Poovey

Book Overview

"A brilliant, original, and powerful book. . . . This is the most skillful integration of feminism and Marxist literary criticism that I know of." So writes critic Stephen Greenblatt about The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer, Mary Poovey's study of the struggle of three prominent writers to accommodate the artist's genius to the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century ideal of the modest, self-effacing "proper lady." Interpreting novels,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226675289
• ISBN13: 9780226675282
• Release Date: December 1985
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"