This book examines continuities and changes in narrative strategies deployed to deal with female desire in a broad range of fiction from the late sixteenth-century to the early nineteenth-century. By focussing on ‘designing women’ and the lengths to which they can and should go as agents of their desires, this book investigates the way generic and moral or social issues intersect in the depiction of female subjectivity. The book examines narrative strategies deployed in the repres...
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Acknowledgements Introduction Women of Great Wit: Designing Women in Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia ‘Free Gift Was What He Wished’: Negotiating Desire in Lady Mary Wroth’s U...
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MAREA MITCHELL is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University, Australia. Her current teaching and research focus on Early Modern Literature from a cultural materialis...