Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660–1727

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Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660–1727 is written by K. Gevirtz and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1137386762 (ISBN 10) and 9781137386762 (ISBN 13).

This book shows how early women novelists from Aphra Behn to Mary Davys drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to establish the novel as a genre. Fascinated by the problematic idea of a unified self underpinning modes of thinking, female novelists innovated narrative structures to interrogate this idea.