Memoirs of Emma Courtney Paperback / softback
by Mary Hays
Edited by Eleanor (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, Wilfrid Laurier Univers Ty
Part of the Oxford World's Classics series
Paperback / softback
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First published in the turbulent decade following the French Revolution, Memoirs of Emma Courtney is based on Mary Hays' own passionate struggle with romance and Enlightenment philosophy.
A feminist and ardent disciple of Mary Wollstonecraft, Hays reveals the lamentable gap between `what women are' and `what woment ought to be'. The novel is one of the most articulate and detailed expressions of the yearnings and frustrations of a woman living in late eighteenth-century English society.
It questions marital arrangements and courtship rituals by depicting a woman who actively pursues the man she loves.
The novel explores the links between sexuality, desire, and economic and social freedom, suggesting the need for improvement in the laws of society which `have enslaved, enervated, and degraded woman'.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:28/05/2009
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- ISBN:9780199555406
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:28/05/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199555406
