Ingenuous Subjection: Compliance and Power in the Eighteenth-Century Domestic Novel

by Helen Thompson

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Helen Thompson's Ingenuous Subjection offers a new feminist history of the eighteenth-century domestic novel. By reading social contract theory alongside representations of the domestic sphere by authors such as Mary Astell, Mary Davys, Samuel Richardson, Eliza Haywood, and Frances Sheridan, Thompson shows how these writers confront women's paradoxical status as both contractual agents and naturally subject wives. Over the long eighteenth...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0812238915

ISBN13:9780812238914

Release Date:October 2005

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:1.13 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"

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