This book recovers the importance of a major figure in eighteenth-century British fiction: the Heroine of Disinterest. The disinterested heroine was no stereotype but a crucial figure in modernizing identity, bringing to life the ideal of character as the product of experience and reflection rather than inheritance and lineage.
| ISBN-13: | 9780230220232 |
| ISBN-10: | 0230220231 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publication date: | 2009-05-29 |
| Edition description: | 2009 |
| Pages: | 188 |
| Product dimensions: | Height: 9 Inches, Length: 6 Inches, Weight: 0.82011961464 Pounds, Width: 1 Inches |
| Author: | V. Cope |
| Language: | en |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
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