Beschreibung:
Presents a major challenge to our current understanding of the history of Western literature, in the first feminist and anti-imperialist account of the development of the novel.
Acknowledgements, List of abbreviations, Introduction, 1 THE SUBJECT/S OF THE NOVEL, 2 SLAVERY AND SEXUALITY IN OROONOKO, 3 DANGEROUS IDENTITY, 4 CHARLOTTE BRONTË/CURRER BELL, 5 THE BRONTË CHILDREN AT PLAY, 6 THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE IN THE PROFESSOR, 7 REREADING FEMINISM'S TEXTS, LANGUAGE, SUBJECTIVITY AND LITERATURE: An afterword, Notes, Bibliography, Index