Chastity and Transgression in Women's Writing, 1792-1897

ROXANNE EBERLE is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Georgia.

Introduction: Interrupting the Harlot's Progress Imagining the Sexualized Heroine: Mary Wollstonecraft, the Feminist Treatise, and The Wrongs of Woman A 'Legion of Wollstonecrafts' 'To Think, To Decide, and to Act': Radical Fictions of Transgressions and Vindication Diverting the Libertine Gaze: Amelia Opie's Adeline Mowbray Victorian Reclamations: Elizabeth Gaskell's Protective Fictions in Mary Barton and Ruth Rewriting the 'Vile Text': Christina Rossetti and the Poetics of Social Reform Reaping the Fruits of Resistance: Josephine Butler and Sarah Grand Writing the New Wollstonecraft Endnotes Works Cited Index