Download or read book Property, Education and Identity in Late Eighteenth-Century Fiction written by V. Cope and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-05-29 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recovers the importance of a major figure in eighteenth-century British fiction: the Heroine of Disinterest. The disinterested heroine was no stereotype but a crucial figure in modernizing identity, bringing to life the ideal of character as the product of experience and reflection rather than inheritance and lineage.