Chastity and Transgression in Women's Writing, 1792-1897

Working at the intersections of feminist literary criticism, new historicism, and narratology, Chastity and Transgression in Women''s Writing revises current understandings of nineteenth-century representations of prostitution, female sexuality and the ''rights of woman'' debate. Eberle''s project explores the connections and disjunctures between women writing during the Romantic period and those ...