Fictional Minds and Female Sexuality: The Consciousness Scene from Pamela to Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Why have all the major novelistic innovations in representing consciousness been achieved through depicting the minds of female characters? This essay argues that eighteenth-century conduct books provided the cultural impetus and structural frame for a particular subjectivity--the self-examining her...

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Published in:	ELH Vol. 86; no. 1; pp. 161 - 189
Main Author:	Dawson, Paul
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	Johns Hopkins University Press Spring2019
Subjects:	Human sexuality in literature Women's sexual behavior Women in literature Literary characters Lady Chatterley's Lover (Book : Lawrence) Ulysses (Book : Joyce) Pamela (Book : Richardson) Transparent Minds (Book)
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