Janet Todd draws on a wide range of critical opinions about the novel 'Pride and Prejudice', arguing that not only is Elizabeth Bennet one of literature's most engaging heroines but that, in her portrait of Mr Darcy, Austen comes as near to representing sexual infatuation as she could within the conventions of time.
Janet Todd draws on a wide range of critical opinions about the novel 'Pride and Prejudice', arguing that not only is Elizabeth Bennet one of literatu...
The life, work and history of Aphra Behn: seventeenth -century dramatist, poet of the erotic and bisexual, novelist, political propagandist, spy.
Praise for the first hardback edition:
"Fascinating scholarship. Todd conveys Behn's vivacious character and the mores of the time." --the New York Times
"Ground-breaking--it reads quickly and lightly. Even Todd's throwaway lines are steeped in learning and observation." --Ruth Perry, MIT, Women's Review of Books
"A major biography; of interest to everyone who cares about women as writers." --Times Higher...
The life, work and history of Aphra Behn: seventeenth -century dramatist, poet of the erotic and bisexual, novelist, political propagandist, spy.
