“Domestic fiction mapped out a new domain of discourse as it invested common forms of social behavior with the emotional values of women.” (470) The psychology behind novels must already have existed: certainly (as Freud suggests) we are frequently concerned in our minds with issues of sexuality. As they are discovered in fiction, however, they are given to the domain of the woman, and so men’s behavior is defined in terms of “feminine” morality.
(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.)
