Elizabeth Kraft is Professor of English at the University of Georgia, USA.

Prize: A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008 ’Kraft's fascinating, groundbreaking study concerns how early British women novelists depicted female sexual desire...Essential.’ Choice 'Women Novelists and the Ethics of Desire provides us with a rich vein of material and reflections to mine in future years.' Eighteenth-Century Fiction

• Contents: Introduction: in the voice of a woman; Matriarchal desire and ethical relation; Men and women in the garden of delight; Sexual awakening and political power; Hieroglyphics of desire; His sister's song; The forgotten woman; The Lot motif and the redaction of double desire; Conclusion: the last word; Works cited; Index.

Elizabeth Kraft is Professor of English at the University of Georgia, USA.

Prize: A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008 ’Kraft's fascinating, groundbreaking study concerns how early British women novelists depicted female sexual desire...Essential.’ Choice 'Women Novelists and the Ethics of Desire provides us with a rich vein of material and reflections to mine in future years.' Eighteenth-Century Fiction

• Contents: Introduction: in the voice of a woman; Matriarchal desire and ethical relation; Men and women in the garden of delight; Sexual awakening and political power; Hieroglyphics of desire; His sister's song; The forgotten woman; The Lot motif and the redaction of double desire; Conclusion: the last word; Works cited; Index.

Elizabeth Kraft is Professor of English at the University of Georgia, USA.

Prize: A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008 ’Kraft's fascinating, groundbreaking study concerns how early British women novelists depicted female sexual desire...Essential.’ Choice 'Women Novelists and the Ethics of Desire provides us with a rich vein of material and reflections to mine in future years.' Eighteenth-Century Fiction

• Contents: Introduction: in the voice of a woman; Matriarchal desire and ethical relation; Men and women in the garden of delight; Sexual awakening and political power; Hieroglyphics of desire; His sister's song; The forgotten woman; The Lot motif and the redaction of double desire; Conclusion: the last word; Works cited; Index.