{"product_id":"ingenuous-subjection-9780812238914","title":"Ingenuous Subjection","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first study to treat feminine compliance as something other than a passive, politically neutral exercise, Ingenuous SubjectionHelen Thompson recovers in this practice the domestic novel's critical engagement with the limits of Enlightenment modernity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Thompson has written a significant, much-needed book that has the potential to re-energize the study of eighteenth-century British novels, fiction by women writers especially.\" * Deidre Lynch, Indiana University *\u003cbr\u003e\"Helen Thompson's brilliant and persuasive new study makes clear that domestic fiction can best be seen as a theoretical battleground, where the debate about the political philosophy of personal agency, and women's paradoxical place within it, is staged and restaged throughout the long eighteenth century.\" * Cora Kaplan, University of Southampton *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e PART I. INGENUOUS SUBJECTION AND FEMININE POLITICAL DIFFERENCE\u003cbr\u003e 1. Boys, Girls, and Wives: Post-Patriarchal Power and the Problem of Feminine Subjection\u003cbr\u003e 2. Mushrooms, Subjects, and Women: The Hobbesian Individual and the Domestic Novel\u003cbr\u003e 3. \"The Words Command and Obey\": Pamela and Domestic Modernity\u003cbr\u003e PART II. INGENUOUS SUBJECTION AND THE NOVEL\u003cbr\u003e 4. Eliza Haywood's Philosophical Career: Ingenuous Subjection and Moral Physiology\u003cbr\u003e 5. Charlotte Lennox and the Agency of Romance: Ingenuous Subjection and Genre\u003cbr\u003e 6. Frances Sheridan's \"disingenuous girl\": Ingenuous Subjection and Epistolary Form\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: \"Marriage has bastilled me for life\": Mary Wollstonecraft's Domestic Novel\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405712204119,"sku":"9780812238914","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ingenuous-subjection-9780812238914","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}