Christine D Roulston

Virtue, Gender, and the Authentic Self in Eighteenth-Century Fiction

"Elegantly written and persuasively argued."--Janet Todd, University of East AngliaThis book analyzes the ways in which female virtue was tied to a new concept of authenticity in 18th-century sentimental fiction, producing a redefiniton of gender relations on the one hand and a re-examination of the...

Queer People: Negotiations and Expressions of Homosexuality, 1700-1800 (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture)

This fascinating and diverse collection of essays concerns the lives and representations of homosexuals in the long eighteenth century. The collection addresses and seeks to move beyond the current critical division between essentialists and social constructionists, a division that bedevils the hist...

Virtue, Gender, and the Authentic Self in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: Richardson, Rousseau, and Laclos