Ingenuous Subjection: Compliance and Power in the Eighteenth-Century Domestic Novel

by Helen Thompson

Helen Thompson's Ingenuous Subjection offers a new feminist history of the eighteenth-century domestic novel. By reading social contract theory alongside representations of the domestic sphere by authors such as Mary Astell, Mary Davys, Samuel Richardson, Eliza Haywood, and Frances Sheridan, Thompson shows how these writers confront women's paradoxical status as both contractual agents and naturally subject wives. Over the long eighteenth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812238915
• ISBN13: 9780812238914
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"