Unsex'd Revolutionaries: Five Women Novelists of the 1790's (Theory / Culture),Used

Unsex'd Revolutionaries: Five Women Novelists of the 1790's (Theory / Culture),Used

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Women had been writing long before the French Revolution, but the reactionary character of the 1790s infused their work with a public importance and an urgency. The decade was one of intense argument and reflection on the role of women in society. Eleanor Ty studies the ways in which five women writers of the 1790s politicized the domestic or sentimental novel in response to oppression and exclusion. Influenced by radical postrevolution thinkers, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Helen Maria Williams, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Charlotte Smith wrote fiction that questioned existing social, economic, legal and cultural practices as they related to women. In particular, they dealt with historically specific gender issues such as female education, the rights and wrongs of woman, and the duties of a wife.Using historical and feminist psycholinguistic studies as a base, Ty explores some of the complexities encountered in the writings of these five women. Through their challenge to Edmund Burkes patriarchal ideas, they discovered strategies of writing based on the maternal or female aesthetic.For these unsexd revolutionaries, sentimental or domestic fiction was not just about courtship, love, and romance. Their writings interrogate the structures of society, and criticize and make relevant the connections between the personal and the political, the domestic and the public sphere.

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