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

Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660–1727
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Total Pages : 390
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ISBN-10 : 9781137386762
ISBN-13 : 1137386762
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Download or read book Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660–1727 written by K. Gevirtz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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