Representing Women and Female Desire from Arcadia to Jane Eyre

by Marea Mitchell

  women

  Robert, 54

  and feminine code, 1, 10, 24, 97, 102,

  107–11, 149–51, 155–7, 164–8,

  Yeazell, Ruth, 7, 8, 9, 77, 106

  170–4, 182–3, 184, 192, 214

  and language, 114–15, 117–18, 161,

  Zelmane, see also Pyrocles, 32, 33, 37,

  171, 186, 230n

  42, 43

  Document Outline

  Cover

  Contents

  Acknowledgements

  Introduction

  1 Women of Great Wit: Designing Women in Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia

  2 ‘Free Gift Was What He Wished’: Negotiating Desire in Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania

  3 Stratagems and Seeming Constraints, or, How to Avoid Being a ‘Grey-hounds Collar’

  4 ‘A Scheme of Virtuous Politics’: Governing the Self in ‘Assaulted and Pursued Chastity’ (1656), The History of the Nun (1689), Love Intrigues (1713), and Love in Excess (1720)

  5 Poor in Everything But Will: Richardson’s Pamela

  6 Turret Love and Cottage Hate: Coming Down to Earth in Pamela 2 and The Female Quixote

  7 ‘It Was Happy She Took a Good Course’: Saving Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice

  8 Agitating Risk and Romantic Chance: Going All the Way with Jane Eyre?

  Notes

  Bibliography

  Index A

  B

  C

  D

  E

  F

  G

  H

  I

  K

  L

  M

  N

  O

  P

  Q

  R

  S

  T

  U

  V

  W

  Y

  Z