Fictions of Modesty: Women and Courtship in the English Novel by Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Fictions of Modesty: Women and Courtship in the English Novel

Ruth Bernard Yeazell

313 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

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From the late seventeenth century to the beginning of the twentieth, no figure was more central to debates in England about the relations between the sexes than that of the modest woman. Drawing on a wide range of narratives from the period, Ruth ...

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