Article: Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work and Culture.(Book Review)

Article: Death to Lady Bountiful: Women and Reform in Edith Wharton's "The ...
Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... feminist subtext of the novel. In recent years, historians have contributed to our understanding of late-nineteenth-century women's experience by drawing attention to the connection between two progressive-era developments: the conservative turn ...

Article: "Too classical for a female pen"? Late eighteenth-century ...
CLIO;  March 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... clear--while history was seen as serious, even inspirational. When readers are informed that the heroine of a late-century novel delights in "the historic pages of the classic Robinson, the elegant Hume, and the learned Gibbon," they can be certain ...

Article: Digesting the eighteenth-century novel.
Academic Exchange Quarterly;  March 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... attend the teaching of the eighteenth-century novel: the intimidating length of many representative ... the case of teaching the eighteenth-century novel, these challenges multiply and intensify ... if the teacher of the eighteenth-century novel adopts the shortest fictions available ...

Article: My worldly goods do thee endow: economic conservatism, widowhood, ...
Intertexts;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... associated with men. The mid- and late-century novel used this figure to delineate the proper ... characters show how the mid- and late-century novel located itself within an emerging ideology ... aggressively sexual. The eighteenth-century novel employs wicked widows to limit the ...

Article: The eighteenth-century novel; v.4.(ENGLISH-LANGUAGE ...
Reference & Research Book News;  August 1, 2005 ;     508 words ...PR851 0-404-64654-9 The eighteenth-century novel; v.4. Title main entry. Ed. by Albert J. Rivero ... experience in the quest for identity in the eighteenth-century novel, the Gothic best sellers in the 1790s, and a variety ...

Article: Commerce, Morality, and the Eighteenth-Century ...
Novel;  April 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...LIZ BELLAMY, Commerce, Morality, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp ... process offer yet more evidence of how the late-eighteenth-century novel of manners participated in the Romantic retreat from mass ...

Article: Reading the Body in the Eighteenth-Century ...
The Modern Language Review;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Reading the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel. By JULIET MCMASTER. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave ... xviii + 194 pp. ISBN 1-40393314-6. The eighteenth-century novel is particularly fertile ground for students of the body ...