“Less of the Heroine than the Woman”: Parsing Gender in the British Novel
This essay offers two methods that will help students resist the temptation to judge eighteenth-century novels by twenty-first-century standards. These methods prompt students to parse the question of whether female protagonists in novels—in this case, Daniel Defoe’s Roxana (1724), Samuel Johnson’s...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Aphra Behn Society
2017-06-01
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| Series: | ABO : Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830 |
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| Online Access: | http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol7/iss1/6/ |