Representing Women and Female Desire From Arcadia to Jane Eyre - Hardcover

Mitchell, Marea; Osland, Dianne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1403943311 ISBN 13: 9781403943316

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

Synopsis

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 strategies deployed in the representation of female desire in a broad range of fiction from the late sixteenth-century to the early-nineteenth century, discussing key texts such as Jane Eyre, Pamela, Pride and Prejudice and Arcadia

About this title

About the Author:

MAREA MITCHELL is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University, Australia. Her current teaching and research focus on Early Modern Literature from a cultural materialist perspective, and her most recent publications are on The Book of Margery Kempe, Anna Weamys, and Sidney's Arcadia.

DIANNE OSLAND is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Language and Media at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Her teaching and research interests include eighteenth-century fiction, romance fiction, the ethics of autobiography, and discursive writing, and she has published most recently on Jane Eyre and The Stone Diaries, Inchbald's A Simple Story, and Richardson's Clarissa.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1403943311
• ISBN 13: 9781403943316
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 255