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8 lut 2019 · The proper lady and the woman writer : ideology as style in the works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen : Poovey, Mary : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
study of the development of the aesthetic solutions Austen-as a proper lady and a woman writer-needed for the problem she set herself of "salvaging romance" (p. 209), while exposing the ideology of propriety.
So writes critic Stephen Greenblatt about The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer, Mary Poovey’s study of the struggle of three prominent writers to accommodate the artist’s genius to the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century ideal of the modest, self-effacing “proper lady.”.
"The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer is a model of . . . creative discovery, providing a well-researched, illuminating history of women writers at the turn of the nineteenth century.
1 lut 1985 · The book is a deep scholarly dive into how some women managed to become authors in the late 18th and early 19th centuries despite the strictures of propriety that controlled their behavior. Respectable women could write if they didn’t seek recognition, just as they could do quilting and needlework. Publication, however, was disreputable.
15 lut 1985 · With care and subtle intelligence, Poovey examines this 'guardian and nemesis of the female self' through the ways it is implicated in the style and strategies of three very different writers."—Rachel M. Brownstein, The Nation.
The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen. Mary Poovey Sex and Enlightenment: Women in Richardson and Diderot . Rita Goldberg First Feminists: British Women Writers, 1578-1799 .
