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Chastity and Transgression in Women's Writing, 1792-1897

Interrupting the Harlot's Progress

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  • © 2002

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  1. Roxanne Eberle

    1. The University of Georgia, USA

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Interrupting the Harlot’s Progress

    • Roxanne Eberle
    Pages 1-19

  3. Imagining the Sexualized Heroine: Mary Wollstonecraft, the Feminist Treatise, and The Wrongs of Woman

    • Roxanne Eberle
    Pages 21-54

  4. Coda to Chapter 1: A “Legion of Wollstonecrafts”

    • Roxanne Eberle
    Pages 55-75

  5. “To think, to decide, and to act”: Radical Fictions of Transgression and Vindication

    • Roxanne Eberle
    Pages 76-105

  6. Diverting the Libertine Gaze: Amelia Opie’s Adeline Mowbray

    • Roxanne Eberle
    Pages 106-135

  7. Victorian Reclamations: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Protective Fictions in Mary Barton and Ruth

    • Roxanne Eberle
    Pages 136-167

  8. Rewriting the “vile text”: Christina Rossetti and the Poetics of Social Reform

    • Roxanne Eberle
    Pages 168-201

  9. Reaping the Fruits of Resistance: Josephine Butler and Sarah Grand

    • Roxanne Eberle
    Pages 202-234

  10. Coda to Chapter 6: Writing the New Wollstonecraft

    • Roxanne Eberle
    Pages 235-243

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 244-276
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Working at the intersections of feminist literary criticism, new historicism, and narratology, Chastity and Transgression in Women's Writing revises current understandings of nineteenth-century representations of prostitution, female sexuality and the 'rights of woman' debate. Eberle's project explores the connections and disjunctures between women writing during the Romantic period and those working throughout the Victorian era. She considers a wide range of authors including Mary Wollstonecraft, Amelia Opie, Mary Hays, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Sarah Grand.

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"Clearly written and meticulously researched, this volume is recommended for readers at all levels." - Choice

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  • The University of Georgia, USA

    Roxanne Eberle

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ROXANNE EBERLE is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Georgia.

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