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Equivocal Beings : Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s--Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen (Women in Culture and Society Series)
Equivocal Beings Politics Gender and Sentimentality in the 1790sWollstonecraft Radcliffe Burney Austen - Women in Culture and Society Series
Author: Claudia L. Johnson
In the wake of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke argued that civil order depended upon nurturing the sensibility of men--upon the masculine cultivation of traditionally feminine qualities such as sentiment, tenderness, veneration, awe, gratitude, and even prejudice. Writers as diverse as Sterne, Goldsmith, Burke, and Rousseau were politically ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226401843
ISBN-10: 0226401847
Publication Date: 6/15/1995
Pages: 256
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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