Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660-1727

By Karen Bloom Gevirtz

Book Overview

This book shows how early women novelists from Aphra Behn to Mary Davys drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to establish the novel as a genre. Fascinated by the problematic idea of a unified self underpinning modes of thinking, female novelists innovated narrative structures to interrogate this idea.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349482307
• ISBN13: 9781349482306
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"