Fictions of Modesty: Women and Courtship in the English Novel

by Ruth Bernard Yeazell

From the late seventeenth century to the beginning of the twentieth, no figure was more central to debates in England about the relations between the sexes than that of the modest woman. Drawing on a wide range of narratives from the period, Ruth Bernard Yeazell analyzes the multiple and conflicting wishes that were covered by talk of "modesty" and explores some of the most striking uses of a modest heroine.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226950964
• ISBN13: 9780226950969
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"