Memoirs of Emma Courtney (Oxford World's Classics)
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Memoirs of Emma Courtney is one of the most articulate and detailed expressions of the yearnings and frustrations of a woman living in late eighteenth-century English society. It questions marital arrangements and courtship rituals by depicting a woman who actively pursues the man she loves.
In this first fully annotated edition of a key sentimental novel, Hays reveals the lamentable gap between "what women are" and "what women ought to be" by exploring the links between sexaulity and desire, and economic and social freedom.
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The Broadview Literary Texts series is an effort to represent the ever-changing canon of literature in English by bringing together texts long regarded as classics with valuable, though lesser-known literature.
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Memoirs of Emma Courtney (Oxford World's Classics),Mary Hays,Eleanor Ty,Oxford University Press, USA,019283729X,Biography/Autobiography,England,English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,Feminists,Fiction,History,History: World,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Renaissance,Sex role,Young women,16th to 18th century fiction,Fiction / Literary,Literature/English | British Literature | 18th C,Romance
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