Representing Women and Female Desire from Arcadia to Jane Eyre

1. Introduction
Marea Mitchell, Dianne Osland

2. Women of Great Wit: Designing Women in Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia
Marea Mitchell, Dianne Osland

3. ‘Free Gift Was What He Wished’: Negotiating Desire in Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania
Marea Mitchell, Dianne Osland

4. Stratagems and Seeming Constraints, or, How to Avoid Being a ‘Grey-hounds Collar’
Marea Mitchell, Dianne Osland

5. ‘A Scheme of Virtuous Politics’: Governing the Self in ‘Assaulted and Pursued Chastity’ (1656), The History of the Nun (1689), Love Intrigues (1713), and Love in Excess (1720)
Marea Mitchell, Dianne Osland

6. Poor in Everything But Will: Richardson’s Pamela
Marea Mitchell, Dianne Osland

7. Turret Love and Cottage Hate: Coming Down to Earth in Pamela 2 and The Female Quixote
Marea Mitchell, Dianne Osland

8. ‘It Was Happy She Took a Good Course’: Saving Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice
Marea Mitchell, Dianne Osland

9. Agitating Risk and Romantic Chance: Going All the Way with Jane Eyre?
Marea Mitchell, Dianne Osland

Keywords: Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Gender Studies, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature