num_pages: 204
description: This text explores the ways in which four British novelists used and transformed the theme of women's relation to sexual love in the 18th and 19th centuries. It analyzes the moment in cultural history when gender roles, sexuality and literature met to become a new ideology.
language: English
title: A Craving Vacancy: Women and Sexual Love in the British Novel, 1740-1880
titlecomplete: A Craving Vacancy: Women and Sexual Love in the British Novel, 1740-1880
ratings_count: 4
publisher: NYU Press