EAN: 9783631529140

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FEMALE VOICES - SABINE AUGUS...

This work focuses on the issue of women's education in a series of novels written by women in
the second half of the eighteenth century. On the one hand  the surface plots are conservative
thus reaffirming the social order  on the other hand  numerous subversive narrative techniques
undermine the surface stories  drawing attention to the consequences of the arbitrary
limitations society imposed on middle-class women as well as to the sense of entrapment and the
resulting anxieties they experienced. In showing the increasing female readership ways to
negotiate between the behavioural codes of a patriarchal society and their own need for
personal freedom  these novels can be read as early feminist critiques of society.

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