 | Ingenuous Subjection: Compliance and Power in the Eighteenth-Century Domestic Novel Subjects: English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Domestic fiction English -- History and criticism; Power (Soc; The first study to treat feminine compliance as something other than a passive, politically neutral exercise, Ingenuous Subjection Helen Thompson recovers in this practice the domestic novel's critical engagement with the limits of Enlightenment modernity. Helen Thompson is a member of the Department of English at Northwestern University. |
