Reading Daughters' Fictions 1709-1834 : Novels and Society from Manley to Edgeworth (Hardcover)

Introduction; 1. Fictions of accident? Representations of incest in Manley, Barker and Haywood; 2. Amorous girls and tyrannical parents: Richardson and the limits of paternal authority; Interlude. A lady's legacy: Sarah Scott and tests of filial duty; 3. Lessons of experience: Evelina and Camilla; 4. Schedoniac contours: the sins of the father in Gothic fiction; 5. Stepping out: from Elizabeth Inchbald to Mary Brunton; 6. Her father's daughter: the life and fictions of Maria Edgeworth.