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Cover image for book Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660–1727

Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660–1727

By:K. Gevirtz
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137389206
eText ISBN:9781137386762
Edition:0
Copyright:2014
Format:Reflowable

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This book shows how early women novelists from Aphra Behn to Mary Davys drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to establish the novel as a genre. Fascinated by the problematic idea of a unified self underpinning modes of thinking, female novelists innovated narrative structures to interrogate this idea.