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|aCope, Virginia H.
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|aProperty, education, and identity in late eighteenth-century fiction|h[electronic resource] :|bthe heroine of disinterest /|cVirginia H. Cope.
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|aBasingstoke :|bPalgrave Macmillan,|c2009.
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|aviii, 180 p. ;|c23 cm.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 166-175) and index.
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|aFeminizing Disinterest -- Burney's Heroines of Disinterest -- Strategic Disavowals in A Simple Story -- Gothic Properties -- Property Recollected in Tranquility.
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|aVirginia H. Cope analyzes the transition to modern ideals of identity by tracking a charactertype, here called the Heroine of Disinterest,that dominated late eighteenth-century British fiction. Best represented in Frances Burney's 1778 Evelina, the Heroine of Disinterest is a young woman of uncertain birth but unshakeable virtue, manifested in her acts of charity and absolute imperviousness to the lure of wealth and status. Although the selfless heroine and the inheritance plot in which she figures are often dismissed as conventional, this book demonstratesthat the character was central to mediating the vexed relations among property, education, and identity, unsettled by the rise ofa capitalist ethos. Associating disinterest with women rescued the ancient ideal from extinction while also providing the discursive means to divide subjectivity from proprietorship, opening the way for the Romantic ideal ofselfhood as the product of experience and reflection rather than inherited wealth and lineage.
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|aElectronic reproduction.|bBasingstoke, England :|cPalgrave Macmillan,|d2009.|nMode of access:World Wide Web.|nSystem requirements: Web browser.|nTitle from title screen (viewed on Oct. 6, 2009).|nAccess may berestricted to users at subscribing institutions.
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|aEnglish fiction|y18th century|xHistory and criticism.
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|aHeroines in literature.
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|aIdentity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
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|aSocial classes in literature.
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