Ingenuous Subjection: Compliance and Power in the Eighteenth-Century Domestic Novel

Helen Thompson

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2006

Ingenuous Subjection

Compliance and Power in the Eighteenth-Century Domestic Novel

Helen Thompson

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812203776

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About this book

The first study to treat feminine compliance as something other than a passive, politically neutral exercise, Ingenuous SubjectionHelen Thompson recovers in this practice the domestic novel's critical engagement with the limits of Enlightenment modernity.

Author / Editor information

Helen Thompson is a member of the Department of English at Northwestern University.

Reviews

"Thompson has written a significant, much-needed book that has the potential to re-energize the study of eighteenth-century British novels, fiction by women writers especially."—Deidre Lynch, Indiana University

"Helen Thompson's brilliant and persuasive new study makes clear that domestic fiction can best be seen as a theoretical battleground, where the debate about the political philosophy of personal agency, and women's paradoxical place within it, is staged and restaged throughout the long eighteenth century."—Cora Kaplan, University of Southampton

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Ingenuous Subjection and Feminine Political Difference
Chapter 1. Boys, Girls, and Wives Post-Patriarchal Power and the Problem of Feminine Subjection Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
Chapter 2. Mushrooms, Subjects, and Women The Hobbesian Individual and the Domestic Novel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Chapter 3. “The Words Command and Obey” Pamela and Domestic Modernity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Part II. Ingenuous Subjection and the Novel
Chapter 4. Eliza Haywood’s Philosophical Career Ingenuous Subjection and Moral Physiology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
Chapter 5. Charlotte Lennox and the Agency of Romance Ingenuous Subjection and Genre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
Chapter 6. Frances Sheridan’s “disingenuous girl” Ingenuous Subjection and Epistolary Form Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
Conclusion. “Marriage has bastilled me for life” Mary Wollstonecraft’s Domestic Novel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 288
Illustrations
- Other: 3 illus.
Keywords: Literature; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: June 3, 2011
ISBN: 9780812203776