Preceding Backwardness
Margaret Anne Doody, 9 January 1992
Women’s Lives and the 18th-Century English Novel
by Elizabeth BerganBrophy.
University of South Florida Press, 291 pp., $29.95, April 1991,0 8130 1036 5 Show More
by Elizabeth BerganBrophy.
University of South Florida Press, 291 pp., $29.95, April 1991,
Fictions of Modesty: Women and Courtship in the English Novel
by Ruth Bernard Yeazell.
Chicago, 306 pp., £19.95, August 1991,0 226 95096 4 Show More
by Ruth Bernard Yeazell.
Chicago, 306 pp., £19.95, August 1991,
“... in its (usually uneasy) dispositions of property and power, including control over reproduction. Elizabeth Bergen Brophy’s book is a response to the question which must have occurred to every reader of 18th-century novels: ‘Are the novels really at all like life at the time?’ Were there ‘real life’ counterparts ... ”
