Books by Elizabeth Kraft

Early women novelists created female characters who demonstrate subjectivity and responsibility for the other even as they grapple with the exigencies imposed on them by circumstance and convention. This work demonstrates not only the centrality of female desire in eighteenth-century culture and literature but its ethical importance as well.

Examines the kind of consciousness central to comic novels of the 18th century. The author asserts that it is individual identity conceived in social terms - a character's search for his or her place in a precarious social order.