IMAGINING LOVE AS A WOMAN WRITER
IMAGINING LOVE AS A WOMAN WRITER

Summary/Abstract: Imagining Love as a Woman Writer. The paper focuses on an exception from the ‘rule’ of representing love as passion in the love fiction of the eighteenth to the nineteenth century. After identifying the cultural sources of understanding love as deadly passion, the author analyzes how the literature written by women distances itself from the passionate representation of love in favor of a rational one. The case study is the novel Pride and Prejudice. The conclusion is that, in women-authored love literature, a new type of masculine-feminine couple and a different poetics of love emerge.

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