Promising Happiness and Domesticating Desire: female homosociality and novel-reading in Frances Burney’s Camilla and Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda
This thesis considers dominant assumptions and polemical arguments about femininity, female desire and domestic happiness in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and how Frances Burney and Maria Edgeworth, respectively, negotiate these ideas through the dynamic of female-female relati...
Main Author: | Henson, Kate Elizabeth |
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Language: | en |
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University of Canterbury. Humanities
2009
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2985 |
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