Women and romance : the consolations of gender in the English novel /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Langbauer, Laurie
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1990.
Series:	Reading women writing.
Subjects:	Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870 > Characters > Women. English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism. Women and literature > Great Britain > History. Romanticism > Great Britain. Sex role in literature. Women in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Online Access:	Available via JSTOR
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Table of Contents:

Foreword / Shari Benstock and Celeste Schenck
Acknowledgments / Laurie Langbauer
Introduction
The romance of history, or Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, sometimes
Diverting romance : Charlotte Lennox's The female Quixote
An early romance : the ideology of the body in Mary Wollstonecraft's writing
Streetwalkers and homebodies : Dickens's romantic women
Recycling patriarchy's garbage : George Eliot's pessimism and the problem of a site for feminism
Conclusion.