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Gender, art and death / Janet M. Todd.
By: Todd, Janet M
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BookPublisher: Cambridge : Polity, 1993Description: vi, 183 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0745610552 .Subject(s): English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism | Women authors, English -- History & criticism | Death in literatureDDC classification: 809.89287
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 809.89287 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00063610 |
Total holds: 0
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In this book, Janet Todd, one of the leading authorities on seventeenth- and eighteenth century women writers, discusses gender issues from the Restoration to Romanticism investigating women authors and the fascination with culturally privileged art and with heroic death.
Includes index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- 1 Introduction: Memory and Women's Studies
- 2 Aphra Behn: The 'Lewd Widow' and her 'Masculine Part'
- 3 Spectacular Deaths: History and Story in Aphra Behn's Love-letters, Oroonoko and The Widow Ranter
- 4 Pamela: or the Bliss of Servitude
- 5 Marketing the Self: Mary Carleton, Miss F and Susannah Gunning
- 6 A Martyr to her Exigencies: Mary Ann Radcliffe
- 7 Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Death
- 8 Thoughts on the death of Fanny Wollstonecraft
- 9 Jane Austen, Politics and Sensibility
- 10 Who's Afraid of Jane Austen?