Summary:

In the wake of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke argued that civil
order depended upon nurturing the sensibility of men—upon the
masculine cultivation of traditionally feminine qualities such as
sentiment, tenderness, veneration, awe, gratitude, and even
prejudice. Writers as diverse as Sterne, Goldsmith, Burke, and
Rousseau were politically motivated to represent authority figures as
men of feeling, but denied women comparable authority by representing
their feelings as inferior, pathological, or criminal. Focusing on
Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen,
whos.

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Contents; Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson; Acknowledgments;
Abbreviations; Introduction: The Age of Chivalry and the Crisis of
Gender; Part One: Mary Wollstonecraft; 1 The Distinction of the
Sexes: The Vindications; 2 Embodying the Sentiments: Mary and The
Wrongs of Woman; Part Two: Ann Radcliffe; 3 Less than Man and More
than Woman: The Romance of the Forest; 4 The Sex of Suffering: The
Mysteries of Udolpho; 5 Losing the Mother in the Judge: The Italian;
Part Three: Frances Burney; 6 Statues, Idiots, Automatons: Camilla; 7
Vindicating the Wrongs of Woman: The Wanderer.

Afterward: Jane Austen"Not at all what a man should be!": Remaking
English Manhood in Emma; Notes; Index;

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