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Desire and Domestic Fiction argues that far from being removed from historical events, novels by writers from Richardson to Woolf were themselves agents of the rise of the middle class. Drawing on texts that range from 18th-century female conduct books and contract theory to modern... read more
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- Jane Austen: Add a description of this character.
- Pamela
- Richardson
- Emma
- Dora
- Jane Eyre
- Woolf
- Rousseau
- Harriet Smith
- Erasmus Darwin
- Robert Martin
- Mr. Elton
- Caroline
- Shuttleworth
- Herr K.
- Freud
- Brontë
- Mr. Knight
- Lockwood
- Gaskell
- Mayhew
- Heathcliff
- Defoe
- Shirley
- Mrs. Brown
- Catherine
- Thackeray
- Bentham
- Rowton
- Frau K.
- Williams
- Frank Churchill
- Becky
- Emily
- Oliver
- Burney
- Bennett
- Lady Davers
- Mrs. Hamilton
- Hilda
- Mary Barton
- Darcy
- Walter Scott
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From the beginning, domestic fiction actively sought to disentangle the language of sexual relations from the language of politics and, in so doing, to introduce a new form of political power.
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- Nancy Armstrong (Author)
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- Dewey: 500
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