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Mary Poovey

The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer

Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen

250 pages,     © 1984
Series: Women in Culture and Society Series

Paper $26.00

ISBN: 9780226675282   Published February 1985

Foreword, by Catharine R. Stimpson
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Proper Lady
2. Man's Discourse, Woman's Heart: Mary Wollstonecraft's Two Vindications
3. Love's Skirmishes and the Triumph of Ideology
4. "My Hideous Progeny": The Lady and the Monster
5. "Ideal and Almost Unnatural Perfection": Revising Mary Shelley
6. Ideological Contradictions and the Consolations of Form: The Case of Jane Austen
7. "The True English Style"
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Subjects



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