Representing Women and Female Desire From Arcadia to Jane Eyre

Mitchell, Marea; Osland, Dianne

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

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2005-08-10

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403943316

DOI: 10.1057/9780230504370

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 247