The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen by Catharine R. Stimpson, Mary Poovey

The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen

Women in Culture and Society

Catharine R. Stimpson, Mary Poovey

250 pages first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction feminism historical history challenging informative medium-paced

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"A brilliant, original, and powerful book. . . . This is the most skillful integration of feminism and Marxist literary criticism that I know of." So writes critic Stephen Greenblatt about The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer, Mary Poovey's study ...

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