Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s--Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen
(Part of the Women in Culture and Society Series)
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In the wake of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke argued that civil order depended upon nurturing the sensibility of men-upon the masculine cultivation of traditionally feminine qualities such as sentiment, tenderness, veneration, awe, gratitude, and even prejudice. Writers as diverse as Sterne, Goldsmith, Burke, and Rousseau were politically motivated to represent authority figures as men of feeling, but denied women comparable authority by representing...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226401847
ISBN13:9780226401843
Release Date:June 1995
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.86 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"
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