Fictions of Modesty: Women and Courtship in the Englisih Novel.
SKU: 17881
With chapters that discuss the centuries-long debate about the modest woman, followed by chapters that focus on literary examples: Pamela, Fanny Hill, Evelina, Fanny Price, Lucy Snowe, Molly Gibson. Preface, generous endnotes, index. Previously owned by a president of the Jane Austen Society of North America, with her marginilia in the chapter on Pamela. Very good condition. The University of Chicago Press. 1991. Hb, Dj. USED. $30.00
$30.00