Representing Women And Female Desire from

This book examines the representation of female desire in a broad range of fiction from the late sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century, discussing key texts such as Jane Eyre, Pamela, Pride and Prejudice and Arcadia . It focuses on the emerging tensions between moral, social, and generic constraints on female behavior.

Marea Mitchell is Senior Lecturer in English at Macquarie University, Australia. Dianne Osland is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Acknowledgements

viii

Introduction

1

(24)

Women of Great Wit: Designing Women in Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia

25

(27)

`Free Gift Was What He Wished': Negotiating Desire in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania

52

(23)

Stratagems and Seeming Constraints, or, How to Avoid Being a `Grey-hounds Collar'

75

(21)

`A Scheme of Virtuous Politics': Governing the Self in `Assaulted and Pursued Chastity' (1656), The History of the Nun (1689), Love Intrigues (1713), and Love in Excess (1720)

96

(21)

Poor in Everything But Will: Richardson's Pamela

117

(24)

Turret Love and Cottage Hate: Coming Down to Earth in Pamela 2 and The Female Quixote

141

(17)

`It Was Happy She Took a Good Course': Saving Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice

158

(17)

Agitating Risk and Romantic Chance: Going All the Way with Jane Eyre?

175

(19)

Notes

194

(38)

Bibliography

232

(11)

Index

243

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Representing Women And Female Desire from Arcadia to Jane Eyre

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