TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sabine Augustin-Bech
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Eighteenth-Century Female Voices
T2  - Education and the Novel
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1099125
N2  - This work focuses on the issue of women’s education in a series of novels written by women in the second half of the eighteenth century. On the one hand, the surface plots are conservative, thus reaffirming the social order; on the other hand, numerous subversive narrative techniques undermine the surface stories, drawing attention to the consequences of the arbitrary limitations society imposed on middle-class women as well as to the sense of entrapment and the resulting anxieties they experienced. In showing the increasing female readership ways to negotiate between the behavioural codes of a patriarchal society and their own need for personal freedom, these novels can be read as early feminist critiques of society.
KW  - Englisch, Frauenbildung (Motiv), Geschichte 1751-1798, Bildung, Frau, 18. Jahrhundert, England, Haywood, Eliza, Erziehung, Frauenroman
LA  - English
ER  -