Gender and Language in British Literary Criticism, 1660-1790 (English, Laura L. Runge)

About the Book

During the eighteenth century British critics believed that masculine values represented the best literature while feminine terms signified less important works or authors. Laura Runge argues that an understanding of the language of eighteenth-century criticism requires careful analysis of the gendered language of the era. Her exploration of why, for example, the heroic and the sublime were seen as masculine modes while the novel was viewed as a…

ISBN: 9780521570091