Property, Education and Identity in Late Eighteenth-Century Fiction: The Heroine of Disinterest

Cope, V.

This book recovers the importance of a major figure in eighteenth-century British fiction: the Heroine of Disinterest. The disinterested heroine was no stereotype but a crucial figure in modernizing identity, bringing to life the ideal of character as the product of experience and reflection rather than inheritance and lineage.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2009-05-29

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230220232

DOI: 10.1057/9780230239548

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 180