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Pam Morris's Conduct Literature for Women IV, 1770–1830

Pam Morris's Conduct Literature for Women IV, 1770–1830 Reviews gender, and historiography in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The many strengths of her approach do entail certain difficulties: the appealingly wide chronological and transatlantic scope makes it hard to conduct a thick history of the many social forces prompting major changes in the genre; this capacious outlook can also produce generalizations about specific works that could be qualified, such as a claim for Anna Jameson’s disapproval of women’s public activism in Characteristics of Women (1832) that relies on a quotation from a dramatic vignette in which the female speaker actually parodies male attitudes toward public women; the text-centered approach to Victorian writing can elide significant differences in authors’ political and cultural orientations, particularly when juxtaposing American and British texts; while arguments for the increasing sway of Christian piety in non-fiction examples of the genre are persuasive, important divergences from this structure could be examined, such as Mary Hays’s Female Biography (1803) and Lady Morgan’s Woman and Her Master (1840). In covering so much ground with such informed knowledge, however, Burstein has constructed a superb foundation from which these additional nuances can be developed. She concludes by noting that ‘the tremulous arrival of academic feminist scholarship’ with http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Romanticism Edinburgh University Press

Pam Morris's Conduct Literature for Women IV, 1770–1830

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Romanticism , Volume 12 (3): 275 – Oct 1, 2006
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Reviews gender, and historiography in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The many strengths of her approach do entail certain difficulties: the appealingly wide chronological and transatlantic scope makes it hard to conduct a thick history of the many social forces prompting major changes in the genre; this capacious outlook can also produce generalizations about specific works that could be qualified, such as a claim for Anna Jameson’s disapproval of women’s public activism in Characteristics of Women (1832) that relies on a quotation from a dramatic vignette in which the female speaker actually parodies male attitudes toward public women; the text-centered approach to Victorian writing can elide significant differences in authors’ political and cultural orientations, particularly when juxtaposing American and British texts; while arguments for the increasing sway of Christian piety in non-fiction examples of the genre are persuasive, important divergences from this structure could be examined, such as Mary Hays’s Female Biography (1803) and Lady Morgan’s Woman and Her Master (1840). In covering so much ground with such informed knowledge, however, Burstein has constructed a superb foundation from which these additional nuances can be developed. She concludes by noting that ‘the tremulous arrival of academic feminist scholarship’ with

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