Through the fiction of phebe gibbes (1764–90): women, alienation, and prodigality in the long eighteenth century
Auteur :
Freeman, Kathryn
Éditeur :
Manchester University Press
ISBN :
9781807072568
Date de publication :
19 janv. 2027
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Centralizing the prolific English novelist, Phebe Gibbes, in a lineage of women writers of the revolutionary period, this study traces Gibbes’ evolution from satire to irony through detailed discussion of five novels representing women’s struggle for agency in the context of a shifting British patriarchy and its growing global imperialism. -- .