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.
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Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660-1727
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.
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Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660-1727
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ISBN-13: | 9781349482306 |
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Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan US |
Publication date: | 03/06/2014 |
Edition description: | 1st ed. 2014 |
Pages: | 247 |
Product dimensions: | 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d) |
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