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Claudia L. Johnson

Equivocal Beings

Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s--Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen

256 pages,  6 x 9  © 1995
Series: Women in Culture and Society Series

Paper $30.00

ISBN: 9780226401843   Published June 1995

Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: The Age of Chivalry and the Crisis of Gender
Pt. 1: Mary Wollstonecraft
1: The Distinction of the Sexes: The Vindications
2: Embodying the Sentiments: Mary and The Wrongs of Woman
Pt. 2: Ann Radcliffe
3: Less than Man and More than Woman: The Romance of the Forest
4: The Sex of Suffering: The Mysteries of Udolpho
5: Losing the Mother in the Judge: The Italian
Pt. 3: Frances Burney
6: Statues, Idiots, Automatons: Camilla
7: Vindicating the Wrongs of Woman: The Wanderer
Afterword: Jane Austen "Not at all what a man should be!": Remaking English Manhood in Emma
Notes
Index
Subjects


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