Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Case of Female Identity: An Investigation into the Heroines of Eliza Haywood's Fantomina and Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey Open Access
Baumwell, Amie Rose (2011)
Abstract
Abstract
Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Case of Female Identity: An
Investigation into the Heroines
of Eliza Haywood's Fantomina and Jane Austen's Northanger
Abbey
By Amie Baumwell
This paper sets out to explore the question of how two female
characters of eighteenth-century
female authors "use" fiction and fantasy to negotiate a variety of
societal and ideological issues.
Using two primary works, Eliza Fowler Haywood's novella Fantomina;
Or, Love in a Maze
(1725) and Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey (1817), I will show
that, through performance
and imaginative novel reading (respectively), the heroines are able
to defy the traditional
feminine roles of their time.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Chapter 1:
Introduction…………………………………………………..1
Chapter 2: Fiction as a Catalyst for Social Mobility in
Fantomina.……..8
Chapter 3: Fiction as a Mode of Edification in Northanger
Abbey…….36
Chapter 4: Fantomina and Northanger Abbey in
Conversation………...64
Works
Cited……………………………………………………………..76
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