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Women and Sexual Love in the British Novel, 1740-1880

A 'Craving Vacancy'

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  • © 1997

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  1. Susan Ostrov Weisser

    1. Adelphi University, USA

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Sexual Possibilities and Impossibilities

    • Susan Ostrov Weisser
    Pages 1-14

  3. Chastity and ‘Rumour’d Heavens’: ‘Woman’ and The Double Message of Sexual Love

    • Susan Ostrov Weisser
    Pages 15-35

  4. The Light in the Cavern: Samuel Richardson and Sexual Love

    • Susan Ostrov Weisser
    Pages 36-52

  5. Thornfield and ‘The Dream to Repose on’: Jane Eyre

    • Susan Ostrov Weisser
    Pages 53-72

  6. Down the ‘Forbidden Path’: Villette

    • Susan Ostrov Weisser
    Pages 73-91

  7. Wild Desire and Quenchless Will: Wuthering Heights

    • Susan Ostrov Weisser
    Pages 92-113

  8. George Eliot and the ‘Hidden Wound’

    • Susan Ostrov Weisser
    Pages 114-149

  9. Conclusion

    • Susan Ostrov Weisser
    Pages 151-159

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 160-190
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This text explores the ways in which four British novelists used and transformed the theme of women's relation to sexual love in the 18th and 19th centuries. It analyzes the moment in cultural history when gender roles, sexuality and literature met to become a new ideology.

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  • Adelphi University, USA

    Susan Ostrov Weisser

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