Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s--Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, AustenUniversity of Chicago Press, 09.03.2009 - 256 Seiten In the wake of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke argued that civil order depended upon nurturing the sensibility of men—upon the masculine cultivation of traditionally feminine qualities such as sentiment, tenderness, veneration, awe, gratitude, and even prejudice. Writers as diverse as Sterne, Goldsmith, Burke, and Rousseau were politically motivated to represent authority figures as men of feeling, but denied women comparable authority by representing their feelings as inferior, pathological, or criminal. Focusing on Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen, whose popular works culminate and assail this tradition, Claudia L. Johnson examines the legacy male sentimentality left for women of various political persuasions. Demonstrating the interrelationships among politics, gender, and feeling in the fiction of this period, Johnson provides detailed readings of Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, and Burney, and treats the qualities that were once thought to mar their work—grotesqueness, strain, and excess—as indices of ideological conflict and as strategies of representation during a period of profound political conflict. She maintains that the reactionary reassertion of male sentimentality as a political duty displaced customary gender roles, rendering women, in Wollstonecraft's words, "equivocal beings." |
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... persons who represent them . When we turn from Burke's Marie - Antoinette to Burney's dutiful daughter pushed to the edge of death because she fears she has offended her revered father ; or to Radcliffe's gothic heroine stepping ...
... persons who represent them . When we turn from Burke's Marie - Antoinette to Burney's dutiful daughter pushed to the edge of death because she fears she has offended her revered father ; or to Radcliffe's gothic heroine stepping ...
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... person " as well as in " the culture of [ their ] mind . " Like Burke , who had depicted the proceedings in France as monstrous because entirely unprecedented , Polwhele stresses the epochal novelty of what " ne'er our fathers saw ...
... person " as well as in " the culture of [ their ] mind . " Like Burke , who had depicted the proceedings in France as monstrous because entirely unprecedented , Polwhele stresses the epochal novelty of what " ne'er our fathers saw ...
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... persons endowed with the most exquisite and deli- cious sensibility , whose minds seem almost of too fine a texture to encounter the vicissitudes of human affairs , to whom pleasure is transport , and disap- INTRODUCTION pointment is ...
... persons endowed with the most exquisite and deli- cious sensibility , whose minds seem almost of too fine a texture to encounter the vicissitudes of human affairs , to whom pleasure is transport , and disap- INTRODUCTION pointment is ...
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Inhalt
7 | |
The Vindications | 23 |
Mary and The Wrongs of Woman | 47 |
3 | 73 |
4 | 95 |
The Italian | 117 |
Camilla | 141 |
The Wanderer | 165 |
Remaking English | 191 |
Notes | 205 |
Index | 233 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adeline Adeline's affective Ann Radcliffe atrocity Aubert authority beauty body Burke Burke's Burney Burney's Camilla CHAPTER character Chicago chivalry criticism culture Darnford discourse discussion distress domestic effeminacy Eighteenth-Century Ellena Ellis/Juliet Emily Emily's Emma Emma's English equivocal Fanny Burney father feeling Female Difficulties feminine Feminism feminist fiction Forest France Frances Burney French Revolution Gary Kelly gender Godwin gothic Gothic Fictions heroines heterosexual human husband Italian Jane Austen Jemima Knightley Lady Laurentini Madame Montoni male sentimentality manly Marchesa Maria Marquis Mary Wollstonecraft Mary's masculine maternal mind misogyny moral mother Motte murder Mysteries of Udolpho narrative narrator nation never Northanger Abbey NOTES TO PAGES novel Oxford passion pleasure plot political prejudice Radcliffe Radcliffe's radical Rights of Woman Romance Rousseau Schedoni seems sensibility sensitivity sexual stonecraft suffering tion torture Tyrold University Press unsexed Vindication virtue Vivaldi Wanderer Woll women Wrongs of Woman
Beliebte Passagen
Seite xvi - I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Seite xvi - Little did I dream, when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Seite 34 - It was this which, without confounding ranks, had produced a noble equality, and handed it down through all the gradations of social life. It was this opinion which mitigated kings into companions, and raised private men to be fellows with kings.
Seite xvi - Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone.
Seite 38 - ... amidst the horrid yells, and shrilling screams, and frantic dances, and infamous contumelies, and all the unutterable abominations of the furies of hell, in the abused shape of the vilest of women.
Seite 41 - In the government of the physical world it is observable that the female in point of strength is, in general, inferior to the male.
Seite 4 - ... the abominable scene of 1789 which I was describing did draw tears from me and wetted my paper. These tears came again into my eyes almost as often as I looked at the description. They may again.
Seite 63 - ... if ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another: whilst this interregnum lasts, I always perceive my heart locked up — I can scarce find in it, to give Misery a sixpence; and therefore I always get out of it as fast as I can, and the moment I am re-kindled, I am all generosity and good will again; and would do any thing in the world either for, or with any one, if they will but satisfy me there is no sin in it.
Seite 34 - On this scheme of things a king is but a man ; a queen is but a woman ; a woman is but an animal, and an animal not of the highest order.
Seite 7 - Taught her to cherish still, in either eye, Of tender tears a plentiful supply, And pour them in the brooks that babbled by ; Taught...
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