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The Gender of Time in the Eighteenth-century English Novel

This study takes a structuralist approach to the development of the novel, arguing that eighteenth-century writers build progressive narrative by rendering abstract, then conflating, literary theories of gendered time that originate in the Renaissance with seventeenth-century scientific theories of motion. I argue that writers from the Renaissance through the eighteenth century generate and regulate progress-as-product in their narratives through gendered constructions of time that corresponded to the generation and regulation of economic, political, and social progress brought about by developing capitalism.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc278321
Date12 1900
CreatorsLeissner, Debra Holt
ContributorsPettit, Alexander, Stevens, L. Robert, Preston, Thomas R.
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatiii, 257 leaves, Text
RightsPublic, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved., Leissner, Debra Holt

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