The Gender of Time in the Eighteenth-century English Novel
Description:
This study takes a structuralist approach to the development of the novel, arguing that eighteenth-century writers build progressive narrative by rendering abstract, then conflating, literary theories of gendered time that originate in the Renaissance with seventeenth-century scientific theories of motion. I argue that writers from the Renaissance through the eighteenth century generate and regulate progress-as-product in their narratives through gendered constructions of time that corresponded…
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Date:
December 1998
Creator:
Leissner, Debra Holt
Partner:
UNT Libraries