Author: K. Gevirtz

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-03-06

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1137386762

This book shows how early women novelists from Aphra Behn to Mary Davys drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to establish the novel as a genre. Fascinated by the problematic idea of a unified self underpinning modes of thinking, female novelists innovated narrative structures to interrogate this idea.