Books and educational treatises written for women: “by representing life with such a woman as not only desirable but also available to virtually anyone, this ideal eventually reached beyond the beliefs of region, faction, and religious sect to unify the interests of those groups who were neither extremely powerful nor very poor” (467).
(Armstrong, Nancy. “From Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel.” Theory of the Novel. Ed. Michael McKeon. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 467-475. Print.)
(Armstrong, Nancy. “From Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel.” Theory of the Novel. Ed. Michael McKeon. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 467-475. Print.)
