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Introduction
This book shows how early women novelists from Aphra Behn to Mary Davys drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to establish the novel as a genre. Fascinated by the problematic idea of a unified self underpinning modes of thinking, female novelists innovated narrative structures to interrogate this idea.
Keywords
genre idea natural philosophy novel philosophy revolution structure women
Bibliographic information
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137386762
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2014
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, New York
- eBook Packages Palgrave Literature Collection
- Print ISBN 978-1-349-48230-6
- Online ISBN 978-1-137-38676-2
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