Property, Education and Identity in Late Eighteenth-Century Fiction - by V Cope (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

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.

About the Author

VIRGINIA H. COPE is an assistant professor of English at Ohio State University, USA.