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Schopenhauer and British Literary Feminism

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“Schopenhauer and British Literary Feminism ” demonstrates the extent to which Schopenhauer’s reception was shaped by British women writers, revealing the surprising appeal of the philosopher’s ideas for Victorian novelists reconceptualizing female desire, sexuality, and agency.

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Correspondence to S. Pearl Brilmyer .

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Brilmyer, S.P. (2017). Schopenhauer and British Literary Feminism. In: Shapshay, S. (eds) The Palgrave Schopenhauer Handbook. Palgrave Handbooks in German Idealism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62947-6_19

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