Women Novelists And The Ethics Of Desire 1684 1814

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Women Novelists and the Ethics of Desire, 1684–1814

Women Novelists and the Ethics of Desire, 1684–1814
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 375
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ISBN-10 : 9781351871907
ISBN-13 : 1351871900
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Book Synopsis Women Novelists and the Ethics of Desire, 1684–1814 by : Elizabeth Kraft

Download or read book Women Novelists and the Ethics of Desire, 1684–1814 written by Elizabeth Kraft and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Women Novelists and the Ethics of Desire, 1684-1814, Elizabeth Kraft radically alters our conventional views of early women novelists by taking seriously their representations of female desire. To this end, she reads the fiction of Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, Eliza Haywood, Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Smith, Frances Burney, and Elizabeth Inchbald in light of ethical paradigms drawn from biblical texts about women and desire. Like their paradigmatic foremothers, these early women novelists create female characters who demonstrate subjectivity and responsibility for the other even as they grapple with the exigencies imposed on them by circumstance and convention. Kraft's study, informed by ethical theorists such as Emmanuel Levinas and Luce Irigaray, is remarkable in its juxtaposition of narratives from ancient and early modern times. These pairings enable Kraft to demonstrate not only the centrality of female desire in eighteenth-century culture and literature but its ethical importance as well.


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