: ideology as style in the works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen Poovey, Mary. creator Mary Poovey text Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1984 monographic eng

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xxii, 287 pages ; 24 cm. 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 of the struggle of three prominent writers to accommodate the artist's genius to the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century ideal of the modest, self-effacing "proper lady." Interpreting novels, letters, journals, and political tracts in the context of cultural strictures, Poovey makes an important contribution to English social and literary history and to feminist theory The proper lady Man's discourse, woman's heart : Mary Wollstonecraft's two vindications Love's skirmishes and the triumph of ideology "My hideous progeny" : the lady and the monster "Ideal and almost unnatural perfection" : revising Mary Shelley Ideological contradictions and the consolations of form : the case of Jane Austen "The true English style" Conclusion / Mary Poovey. English literature History Social ethics in literature Women and literature 823.709 POO 9780226675282 : International Book Distributors : Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi. 230131 20230131093528.0