Authors: Laura Morgan Green
ISBN-13: 9780821414033, ISBN-10: 0821414038
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Date Published: November 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Green (English, Northeastern U.) seeks to undermine the opposition between the apparent progressivism of a historical narrative of educating women, and the apparent conservatism of a fictional structure of marrying them off. Analyzing both fiction and nonfiction texts of late-19th-century Britain, she looks at the relationship between the movement to establish higher education for women and the profusion of representations of women as students, teachers, or frustrated scholars in domestic novels. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | ||
1 | Domesticity and Duplicity: The Rhetoric of the Higher Education Movement | 1 |
2 | Living on the Moon: Jane Eyre and the Limits of Self-Education | 24 |
3 | From English Governess to Orientalist Scholar: Female Pedagogy and Power in Anna Leonowens's The English Governess at the Siamese Court | 46 |
4 | "At once narrow and promiscuous": Emily Davies, George Eliot, and Middlemarch | 70 |
5 | "Strange [in]difference of sex": Thomas Hardy and the Temptations of Androgyny | 101 |
Notes | 129 | |
Works Cited | 141 | |
Index | 149 |