Property, Education and Identity in Late Eighteenth-Century Fiction: The Heroine of Disinterest

by VirginiaH.Cope (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $122.46

  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.