Sex and Subterfuge

The publication in 1778 of "Evelina" by Fanny Burney was a landmark for women's writing and the development of the English novel. During the next 60 years women novelists not only produced some of the most enduring masterpieces of English fiction but also fundamentally changed the shape and function of the novel. In this study the author, herself a novelist, looks at these writers and their extraordinary contribution to literature. She examines the special problems faced by women writers, and the way in which these were turned to ultimate advantage. Emerging from obliquy and obscurity, women writers such as Burney, Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Edgeworth, Ann Radcliffe, Elizabeth Gaskell and others who reshaped the novel from the male picaresque tradition in a way which has had a lasting influence.

ISBN 0044406568   DEWEY edition DC20 ISBN13 9780044406563 (What's this?)   Pages 192 Publisher Rivers Oram Press   Weight (grammes) 175 Imprint Rivers Oram Press/Pandora List   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 216 Publication date 24 May 1990   Width (mm) 138 Library of Congress PR830.W62   Academic level General DEWEY 823.0099287

Background for change; finding a structure; anxious apologies; Fanny Burney; the Gothic alternative; the supremacy of sense; the suppressed self; "Wuthering Heights", the broader view.

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