This book examines the representation of female desire in a broad range of fiction from the late sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century, discussing key texts such as Jane Eyre, Pamela, Pride and Prejudice and Arcadia. It focuses on the emerging tensions between moral, social, and generic constraints on female behavior.
Author(s): Marea Mitchell, Dianne Osland
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2005
Language: English
Commentary: 69388
Pages: 256
City: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, N.Y
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Introduction......Page 10
1 Women of Great Wit: Designing Women in Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia......Page 34
2 ‘Free Gift Was What He Wished’: Negotiating Desire in Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania......Page 61
3 Stratagems and Seeming Constraints, or, How to Avoid Being a ‘Grey-hounds Collar’......Page 84
4 ‘A Scheme of Virtuous Politics’: Governing the Self in ‘Assaulted and Pursued Chastity’ (1656), The History of the Nun (1689), Love Intrigues (1713), and Love in Excess (1720)......Page 105
5 Poor in Everything But Will: Richardson’s Pamela......Page 126
6 Turret Love and Cottage Hate: Coming Down to Earth in Pamela 2 and The Female Quixote......Page 150
7 ‘It Was Happy She Took a Good Course’: Saving Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice......Page 167
8 Agitating Risk and Romantic Chance: Going All the Way with Jane Eyre?......Page 184
Notes......Page 203
Bibliography......Page 241
D......Page 252
K......Page 253
P......Page 254
W......Page 255
Z......Page 256
