TY  - GEN
T1  - The courtship novel, 1740-1820 : a feminized genre
A1  - Green, Katherine Sobba, 1949-
LA  - English
PP  - Lexington, Ky.
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
YR  - 1991
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn644048075
AB  - The period from her first London assembly to her wedding day was the narrow span of autonomy for a middle-class Englishwoman in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. For many women, as Katherine Sobba Green shows, the new ideal of companionate marriage involved such thoroughgoing revisions in self-perception that a new literary form was needed to represent their altered roles. That the choice among suitors ideally depended on love and should not be decided on any other grounds was a principal theme among a group of heroine-centered novels published between 1740 and 1820. During these d.
OP  - 184
CN  - PR858.C69 G74 1991
SN  - 9780813117362
SN  - 0813117364
SN  - 9781322595856
SN  - 1322595852
KW  - English fiction : 18th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Courtship in literature.
KW  - Feminism and literature : Great Britain : History : 18th century.
KW  - Feminism and literature : Great Britain : History : 19th century.
KW  - Women and literature : Great Britain : History : 18th century.
KW  - Women and literature : Great Britain : History : 19th century.
KW  - English fiction : Women authors : History and criticism.
KW  - English fiction : 19th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Dating (Social customs) in literature.
KW  - Feminist fiction : Great Britain : History : 18th century.
KW  - Feminist fiction : Great Britain : History : 19th century.
KW  - English fiction : History and criticism.
KW  - English literature : Women authors : History and criticism.
KW  - Roman anglais : 18e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Amours dans la littérature.
KW  - Roman féministe : Grande-Bretagne : Histoire : 18e siècle.
KW  - Roman féministe : Grande-Bretagne : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Femmes et littérature : Grande-Bretagne : Histoire : 18e siècle.
KW  - Femmes et littérature : Grande-Bretagne : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Roman anglais : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Roman anglais : 19e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Écrits de femmes anglais : Histoire et critique.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - Novela inglesa : S.XVIII : Historia y crítica
KW  - Novela inglesa : S.XIX : Historia y crítica
KW  - Feminismo y literatura : Gran Bretaña : Historia
KW  - Feminist fiction
KW  - English literature : Women authors
KW  - Dating (Social customs) in literature
KW  - Courtship in literature
KW  - English fiction
KW  - English fiction : Women authors
KW  - Feminism and literature
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - 1700-1899
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - History
ER  -