Ingenuous subjection : compliance and power in the eighteenth-century domestic novel /
Thompson, Helen,1967-
Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press,
c2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-268) and index.
Boys, girls, and wives: post-patriarchal power and the problem of feminine subjection -- Mushrooms, subjects, and women : The Hobbesian individual and the domestic novel -- The words command and obey: Pamela and domestic modernity -- Eliza Haywood's philosophical career: ingenuous subjection and moral physiology -- Charlotte Lennox and the agency of romance: ingenuous subjection and genre -- Frances Sheridan's "disingenuous girl": ingenuous subjection and epistolary form -- Conclusion: "Marriage has bastilled me for life" : Mary Wollstonecraft's domestic novel.
English fiction
Feminism and literature
Women and literature
Domestic fiction, English
Power (Social sciences) in literature.
Family in literature.
Women in literature.