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Property, education, and identity in late eighteenth-century fictionthe heroine of disinterest /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Property, education, and identity in late eighteenth-century fictionVirginia H. Cope.
Reminder of title:	the heroine of disinterest /
Author:	Cope, Virginia H.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan,2009.
Description:	viii, 180 p. ;23 cm.
Subject:	English fictionHistory and criticism.18th century
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230239548

Property, education, and identity in late eighteenth-century fictionthe heroine of disinterest /
Cope, Virginia H.

Property, education, and identity in late eighteenth-century fictionthe heroine of disinterest /[electronic resource] :Virginia H. Cope. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan,2009. - viii, 180 p. ;23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-175) and index.

Feminizing Disinterest -- Burney's Heroines of Disinterest -- Strategic Disavowals in A Simple Story -- Gothic Properties -- Property Recollected in Tranquility.

Virginia H. Cope analyzes the transition to modern ideals of identity by tracking a charactertype, here called the Heroine of Disinterest,that dominated late eighteenth-century British fiction. Best represented in Frances Burney's 1778 Evelina, the Heroine of Disinterest is a young woman of uncertain birth but unshakeable virtue, manifested in her acts of charity and absolute imperviousness to the lure of wealth and status. Although the selfless heroine and the inheritance plot in which she figures are often dismissed as conventional, this book demonstratesthat the character was central to mediating the vexed relations among property, education, and identity, unsettled by the rise ofa capitalist ethos. Associating disinterest with women rescued the ancient ideal from extinction while also providing the discursive means to divide subjectivity from proprietorship, opening the way for the Romantic ideal ofselfhood as the product of experience and reflection rather than inherited wealth and lineage.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230239548Subjects--Topical Terms:

176088
English fiction
--History and criticism.--18th centuryIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR858 / .C67 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 823.5093522

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