Women Novelists and the Ethics of Desire, 1684-1814: In the Voice of Our Biblical Mothers - Couverture rigide

Kraft, Elizabeth

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ISBN 10 : 0754662802 ISBN 13 : 9780754662808

Editeur : Routledge, 2008

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In Women Novelists and the Ethics of Desire, 1684-1814, Elizabeth Kraft radically alters our conventional views of early women novelists by taking seriously their representations of female desire. To this end, she reads the fiction of Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, Eliza Haywood, Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Smith, Frances Burney, and Elizabeth Inchbald in light of ethical paradigms drawn from biblical texts about women and desire. Like their paradigmatic foremothers, these early women novelists create female characters who demonstrate subjectivity and responsibility for the other even as they grapple with the exigencies imposed on them by circumstance and convention. Kraft's study, informed by ethical theorists such as Emmanuel Levinas and Luce Irigaray, is remarkable in its juxtaposition of narratives from ancient and early modern times. These pairings enable Kraft to demonstrate not only the centrality of female desire in eighteenth-century culture and literature but its ethical importance as well.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Elizabeth Kraft is Professor of English at the University of Georgia, USA.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0754662802
• ISBN 13: 9780754662808
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208