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Something New
Something New explores sexual roles and questions with subtlety and astonishingly modern insight the prevailing "rights" of men over women, their respective attitudes towards one another, and the ideology of the "beauty myth" is challenged in this 1801 publication.
"Plumptre's creation of a physically unattractive heroine is indeed 'something new.' Her innovation in this epistolary novel also extends beyond the characterization of Olivia to the models of masculinity, sentimental and satiric, so tellingly grouped around her…. McLeod's skillful edition includes a thought-provoking compendium of 18th-century views of beauty and ugliness." --Jennifer Thorn, Duke University
Appendices include materials on eighteenth-century views of beauty and ugliness.
"Plumptre's creation of a physically unattractive heroine is indeed 'something new.' Her innovation in this epistolary novel also extends beyond the characterization of Olivia to the models of masculinity, sentimental and satiric, so tellingly grouped around her…. McLeod's skillful edition includes a thought-provoking compendium of 18th-century views of beauty and ugliness." --Jennifer Thorn, Duke University
Appendices include materials on eighteenth-century views of beauty and ugliness.
349 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1801
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Anne Plumptre
67 booksAnne Plumptre (born 1760) was an English writer and translator, sister of Annabella Plumptre.
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