Fictions of Modesty: Women and Courtship in the English Novel

by Ruth Bernard Yeazell

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From the late seventeenth century to the beginning of the twentieth, no figure was more central to debates in England about the relations between the sexes than that of the modest woman. Drawing on a wide range of narratives from the period, Ruth Bernard Yeazell analyzes the multiple and conflicting wishes that were covered by talk of "modesty" and explores some of the most striking uses of a modest heroine.

Combining evidence from conduct...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0226950964

ISBN13:9780226950969

Release Date:June 1991

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:313 Pages

Weight:1.35 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory English Literature History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods Women Writers Women's Studies

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