Property, education, and identity in...
Cope, Virginia H.

 

  • Property, education, and identity in late eighteenth-century fiction[electronic resource] :the heroine of disinterest /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 823.5093522
    書名/作者: Property, education, and identity in late eighteenth-century fiction : the heroine of disinterest // Virginia H. Cope.
    作者: Cope, Virginia H.
    出版者: Basingstoke : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2009.
    面頁冊數: viii, 180 p. ;; 23 cm.
    標題: English fiction - History and criticism. - 18th century
    標題: Heroines in literature.
    標題: Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
    標題: Social classes in literature.
    ISBN: 9780230239548
    ISBN: 0230239544
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-175) and index.
    內容註: Feminizing Disinterest -- Burney's Heroines of Disinterest -- Strategic Disavowals in A Simple Story -- Gothic Properties -- Property Recollected in Tranquility.
    摘要、提要註: Virginia H. Cope analyzes the transition to modern ideals of identity by tracking a charactertype, here called the Heroine of Disinterest,that dominated late eighteenth-century British fiction. Best represented in Frances Burney's 1778 Evelina, the Heroine of Disinterest is a young woman of uncertain birth but unshakeable virtue, manifested in her acts of charity and absolute imperviousness to the lure of wealth and status. Although the selfless heroine and the inheritance plot in which she figures are often dismissed as conventional, this book demonstratesthat the character was central to mediating the vexed relations among property, education, and identity, unsettled by the rise ofa capitalist ethos. Associating disinterest with women rescued the ancient ideal from extinction while also providing the discursive means to divide subjectivity from proprietorship, opening the way for the Romantic ideal ofselfhood as the product of experience and reflection rather than inherited wealth and lineage.
    電子資源: access to fulltext (Palgrave)
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