Envisioning a Community of Women in Belinda
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This paper examines Edgeworth’s view of the mother-daughter relationship that has been overlooked in the Edgeworth criticism. Focusing on her first heroine-centered novel, Belinda, it shows how Edgeworth pursues an alliance with women through the endorsement of literary women and through the representation of the enlightened heroine. It begins with investigating the influence of female predecessors on Edgeworth’s novel writing and her recognition of the female tradition. Then, it shows how Edgeworth rewrites the conventional courtship model through the representation of the maternal/filial plot. It illustrates how the heroine’s maturity explains the insignificance of the courtship plot and how Belinda centers on the critical role the enlightened heroine plays in reconnecting the mother-daughter relationship and establishing the tradition of a community of women. Edgeworth’s express confidence in the enlightened condition of women is the achievement of female novelists’ collective efforts in constructing a recognizable and respectable tradition.
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This paper examines Edgeworth’s view of the mother-daughter relationship that has been overlooked in the Edgeworth criticism. Focusing on her first heroine-centered novel, Belinda, it shows how Edgeworth pursues an alliance with women through the endorsement of literary women and through the representation of the enlightened heroine. It begins with investigating the influence of female predecessors on Edgeworth’s novel writing and her recognition of the female tradition. Then, it shows how Edgeworth rewrites the conventional courtship model through the representation of the maternal/filial plot. It illustrates how the heroine’s maturity explains the insignificance of the courtship plot and how Belinda centers on the critical role the enlightened heroine plays in reconnecting the mother-daughter relationship and establishing the tradition of a community of women. Edgeworth’s express confidence in the enlightened condition of women is the achievement of female novelists’ collective efforts in constructing a recognizable and respectable tradition.
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