Through the Fiction of Phebe Gibbes (1764–90): Women, Alienation, and Prodigality in the Long Eighteenth...

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Kathryn Freeman

Through the Fiction of Phebe Gibbes (1764–90)

Women, Alienation, and Prodigality in the Long Eighteenth Century

Kathryn Freeman

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Manchester University Press
25 March 2025

Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Through the Fiction of Phebe Gibbes places this prolific, newly recovered English writer at the centre of the revolutionary period. Gibbes's novels mark the struggles of women for agency in an expanding British empire, from the Seven Years' War to revolutions in American, Haiti and France. With Gibbes as a nexus in a lineage of women writers from Aphra Behn to Jane Austen, Kathryn S. Freeman offers a valuable perspective on the 'long eighteenth century', with Gibbes' own evolution mirroring that of the larger period. The study traces the development of Gibbes' authorial voice from satire to irony through a range of female characters subverting patriarchal oppression. Freeman guides the reader through patterns of narrative voice, concerns with gender and sexuality, and elements of wordplay through detailed discussion of five novels representing Gibbes' evolving representation of a subversive female subjectivity.

By: Kathryn Freeman
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 527g
ISBN: 9781526175007
ISBN 10: 1526175002
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 25 March 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Kathryn S. Freeman is Professor of English at the University of Miami.