Representing Women and Female Desire From Arcadia to Jane Eyre

MAREA MITCHELL is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University, Australia. Her current teaching and research focus on Early Modern Literature from a cultural materialist perspective, and her most recent publications are on The Book of Margery Kempe, Anna Weamys, and Sidney's Arcadia. DIANNE OSLAND is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Language and Media at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Her teaching and research interests include eighteenth-century fiction, romance fiction, the ethics of autobiography, and discursive writing, and she has published most recently on Jane Eyre and The Stone Diaries, Inchbald's A Simple Story, and Richardson's Clarissa.

• Acknowledgements Introduction Women of Great Wit: Designing Women in Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia "Free Gift Was What He Wished": Negotiating Desire in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania Stratagems and Seeming Constraints, or How to Avoid Being a 'Grey-hound's Collar' A Scheme of Virtuous Politics: Governing the Self in 'Assaulted and Pursured Chastity' (1656), The History of the Nun (1689), Love Intrigues (1713), and Love in Excess (1720) Poor in Everything But Will: Richardson's Pamela Turret Love and Cottage Hate: Coming Down to Earth in Pamela 2 , and The Female Quixote "It Was Happy She Took A Good Course": Saving Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice Agitating Risk and Romantic Chance: Going All the Way with Jane Eyre ? Notes Bibliography Index