Frail Vessels: Woman's Role in Women's Novels from Fanny Burney to George Eliot
By: Mews, Hazel.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional 2014Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781472506528; 9781472506528:.Subject(s): English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism | English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Women in literature | Women and literature -- Great Britain -- HistorySummary: The years between the publication of Mary Wollstonecraft's 'Vindication of the Rights of Woman' (1792) and of John Stuart Mill's essay 'On the Subjection of Women' (1869) - a crucial phase in the emancipation movement - also saw the emergence of England's greatest women writers, whose response to the flux of new ideas as revealed in many outstanding works of fiction Dr Mews here examines. The central chapters of the book take the form of a perceptive and humane analysis of the way in which the greater women novelists conceived the role of women, on the one hand as young girls, wives and mothers, on the other as individuals standing alone in spinsterhood, as teachers or artists.The years between the publication of Mary Wollstonecraft's 'Vindication of the Rights of Woman' (1792) and of John Stuart Mill's essay 'On the Subjection of Women' (1869) - a crucial phase in the emancipation movement - also saw the emergence of England's greatest women writers, whose response to the flux of new ideas as revealed in many outstanding works of fiction Dr Mews here examines. The central chapters of the book take the form of a perceptive and humane analysis of the way in which the greater women novelists conceived the role of women, on the one hand as young girls, wives and mothers, on the other as individuals standing alone in spinsterhood, as teachers or artists.