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The Novel of Female Adultery
The novel of adultery is a nineteenth-century form about the experience of women, produced almost exclusively by men. Bill Overton's study is the first to address the gender implications of this form, and the first to write its history. The opening chapter defines the terms 'adultery' and 'novel of adultery', and discusses how the form arose in Continental Europe, but failed to appear in Britain. Successive chapters deal with its development in France, and with examples from Russia, Denmark, Germany, Spain and Portugal.
Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences
Over the past two decades, the process of cultural development and, in particular, the role of reading has been of growing interest, but recent research has been episodic and idiosyncratic. In this biographical dictionary, research devoted specifically to the reading habits of 19th century individuals who shaped Western culture is brought together for the first time. While giving prominent coverage to literary and political figures, the volume's 270 entries also include musicians, painters, educators, and explorers. Each entry includes brief biographical information, a concise summary of literary influences on the subject, and clear direction for further research. The book provides a practic...
Eighteenth-Century Literary Affections
This book assesses the mediating role played by 'affections' in eighteenth-century contestations about reason and passion, questioning their availability and desirability outside textual form. It examines the formulation and idealization of this affective category in works by Isaac Watts, Lord Shaftesbury, Mary Hays, William Godwin, Helen Maria Williams, and William Wordsworth. Part I outlines how affections are invested with utopian potential in theology, moral philosophy, and criticism, re-imagining what it might mean to know emotion. Part II considers attempts of writers at the end of the period to draw affections into literature as a means of negotiating a middle way between realism and idealism, expressivism and didacticism, particularity and abstraction, subjectivity and objectivity, femininity and masculinity, radicalism and conservatism, and the foreign and the domestic.
Encyclopedia of Life Writing
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The French Revolution of 1789 and Its Impact
A collection of over twenty-five essays discussing the influence of the French Revolution of 1789 on different countries and cultures.
Sex, Abortion and Unmarried Women
Impressively researched, this insightful study persuasively refutes claims and myths such as women are increasingly using abortion as their primary method of contraception; the abortion experience is more traumatic than giving up a newborn infant for adoption; unrestrictive abortions encourage irresponsible sex; sex education and the ready availability of contraceptive devices encourage sexual experimentation; unmarried women get pregnant because they want to for some "underlying motives"; most unmarried abortees experience pathological guilt and depression following abortion surgery; and abortions performed in hospitals are no more therapeutic and emotionally healthy than those performed in clinics. The volume begins with a look at the abortion controversy in North America. The following chapter presents general information on the psychological effects of abortion.
