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| | Romanticism On the Net 13 (February 1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | In her book, Gonda herself ostensibly pursues this topic: as the blurb professes, she 'shows that heroine-centred novels, aimed at a predominantly female readership, had an important part to play in female socialization and constructions of heterosexuality, in which the father-daughter relationship had a central role'. |
 | | Gonda lumps together reality and fiction when she notes she has been 'exploring the process by which daughters internalize patriarchal authority' (140), but does not make clear which world (ours, or a novel's) the daughters inhabit. |
 | | And yet, by page 33, Gonda has retreated from this stance: 'Paternal education at its best makes the daughters fit objects for the love of a good man, as they strive to be worthy of their father's affection'. |
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