Titlebook: Women’s Domestic Activity in the Romantic-Period Novel, 1770-1820; Dangerous Occupation Joseph Morrissey Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applic

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,Needlework in Charlotte Smith’s , and Jane Austen’s ,,gency and women’s work as enforcing gender inequality. In . in particular, the heroine’s work with needles and pins exposes the sexual desire that underwrites masculine codes of chivalry and romantic love. In ., women’s work emerges as a subtle but powerful force in structuring social relationships

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,Musical Accomplishment in Frances Burney’s ,,His research also examines how this experience of music was shaped by society and the wider musical culture of the period. Burney’s presentation of musical practice, Morrisey argues, shows how it could alienate women from their friends and from their self-identity. Conversely, by charting Burney’s i

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,Sensibility in Charlotte Smith’s ,, commodification of emotions, Morrissey breaks down the Romantic association of sincerity of feeling with virtue by illustrating how the text’s eponymous heroine uses authentic emotions for self-interested purposes. The chapter also unpacks Smith’s presentation of the female heiress, elucidating a d

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Conclusion,nd between work and leisure. A better way of conceptualising women’s different daily activities, the chapter argues, is through recognising their shared status as forms of human action. Through this, the chapter reconsiders the relationship between the long eighteenth-century ‘public’ and ‘private’

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Book 2018nd feeling processes that informed the playing of a harp, the stitching of a dress, or the reading of a gothic novel, the book shifts the focus from women’s socio-cultural contributions through domestic endeavor to how women’s day-to-day tasks shaped experiences of joy, friendship, resentment, and s

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,Needlework in Charlotte Smith’s , and Jane Austen’s ,,and domesticity. Further, Fanny Price’s embroidery and plain work enable privacy and quiet reflection, and as such are implicated in Austen’s imagined construction of interiority. The chapter also charts how Austen links women’s work to an overarching ideology of taste, thereby shedding new light on the author’s sociopolitical and cultural values.

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Conclusion,spheres. Since both are arenas for human action, both carry the possibility for self-expression and unanticipated interpersonal consequences, emphasising their essential continuity. Morrissey finishes by acknowledging that human endeavour remains locked in an ongoing struggle against the cultural norms which drain its power for self-realisation.

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