Title
The Lover as Father Figure in EighteenthCentury Women's Fiction,Used
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"Drawing on examples from Behn, Manley, Haywood, Burney, Inchbald, Smith, and Austen, Eleanor Wikborg's book is an original, comprehensive, and provocative study of the contradictions in the patriarchal ideology that governs the eighteenthcentury courtship novel."John Richetti, University of PennsylvaniaThis book is an exploration of the ways women writers of eighteenthcentury English fiction invented a father figure who becomes the heroine's lover, and in effect proposed that these novels serve as "conduct books for men."Wikborg examines the strategies of women writers devising "imaginary solutions" to the contradiction between the eighteenthcentury belief that women could be safely happy only in marriage and the inequalities endured by the women in those marriages. Beyond their construction of the father figure as various typesguardian, princely suitor, mentorWikborg contends that women writers were exploring alternative male behaviors in their novelsthat is, they were not in the business of upholding prevailing gender structures. Cutting through the distinction often drawn between the politically advanced novelists of the 1790s and their predecessors, Wikborg finds that many of these writers tried to transform the father figure into an ideal suitor who after marriage would recognize his wife's female personhood.The book is also the first to focus on lover as father figure across such a wide range of writers, from familiar figures such as Aphra Behn in the early 1700s and Radcliffe and Jane Austen at century's end to much less wellknown writers early and late. Among the work's illuminating features is the linking of Austen's novels to their eighteenthcentury predecessors.Wikborg's examination of the theme of the eighteenthcentury father/lover includes a discussion of the figures of parents and mentors in an age when these roles were being renegotiated.Eleanor Wikborg is professor of English at Stockholm University.
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