The Courtship Novel, 1740-1820: A Feminized Genre - Hardcover

by Katherine Sobba Green (Author)

" The period from her first London assembly to her wedding day was the narrow span of autonomy for a middle-class Englishwoman in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. For many women, as Katherine Sobba Green shows, the new ideal of companionate marriage involved such thoroughgoing revisions in self-perception that a new literary form was needed to represent their altered roles. That the choice among suitors ideally depended on love and should not be decided on any other grounds was a p

Author Biography

Katherine Sobba Green teaches English at Auburn University.