The domestic revolution : Enlightenment feminisms and the novel
An exploration of how 18th-century women writers of novels, conduct books and tracts addressed social, political and economic issues, revising public thinking about the family and women's sexual and domestic conduct. Two types of women writers are covered: Matriarchs and Egalitarians.
Print Book, English, 2000
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2000
Criticism, interpretation, etc
304 pages ; 24 cm
9780801864162, 9780801864179, 9780801846175, 080186416X, 0801864178, 080184617X
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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Enlightenment Feminisms and the Domestic Novel Chapter 1. The Question of Domestic GovernmentChapter 2. Domestic Fictions and the Pedagogy Example Chapter 3. Sexual Revolution and the Hardwicke Marriage ActChapter 4. "The Public Uses of Private Families"Chapter 5. Governing Utopias and the Feminist Rousseau Conclusion: The Domestic RevolutionNotesWorks CitedIndex