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In this strikingly original treatment of the rise of the novel, Nancy Armstrong argues that the novels and non- fiction written by and for women in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England paved the way for the rise of the modern English middle class. Most critical studies of the novel mistakenly locate political power exclusively in the official institutions of state, ignoring the political domain over which women hold authority, which includes courtship practices, family relations, and the use of leisure time. To remedy this, Armstrong provides a dual analysis, tracing both the rise of the novel and the evolution of female authority as part of one phenomenon.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Desire and Domestic Fiction
• Author: Nancy Armstrong
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 310
• EAN: 9780195061604
• ISBN: 0195061608
• ID: 04031184
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 412 g
• Dimensions: 217 × 144 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. April 1990

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