Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660–1727

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Title:

Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660–1727

Author:

Gevirtz, Karen Bloom. author.

ISBN:

9781137386762

Personal Author:

Gevirtz, Karen Bloom. author.

Physical Description:

X, 247 p. online resource.

Abstract:

This book shows how early women novelists from Aphra Behn to Mary Davys drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to establish the novel as a genre. Fascinated by the problematic idea of a unified self underpinning modes of thinking, female novelists innovated narrative structures to interrogate this idea.

Subject Term:

European literature.

Modern philosophy.

Sex (Psychology).

Gender expression.

Gender identity.

History of Science.

History of Philosophy.

Gender Studies.

Added Corporate Author:

SpringerLink (Online service)

Electronic Access:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137386762

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This book shows how early women novelists from Aphra Behn to Mary Davys drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to establish the novel as a genre. Fascinated by the problematic idea of a unified self underpinning modes of thinking, female novelists innovated narrative structures to interrogate this idea.