18th Century
Gender Studies and Eighteenth-Century British Literature
By , University of Pennsylvania (May 2007)
Sections: 18th Century
Subjects: Literature, Eighteenth Century Literature.
Periods: 1000 - 1999, 1700-1799.
Key Topics: gender, novel and novella, literary criticism , identity.
Abstract
A chronological sketch of the kinds of questions and methods characteristic of recent work in eighteenth-century gender studies, drawing on representative book-length studies as examples. It compares the histories and purposes of Women's Studies, Feminist Studies and Gender Studies, and concentrates on critical work dealing with early novels.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2007.00446.x
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