SOURCE: "Flirting with Destiny: Ambivalence and Form in the Early American Sentimental Novel," in Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 10, No. 1, Spring, 1982, pp. 17-39.
In the following essay, Davidson argues that some domestic novels ironically subvert typical social constructions of femininity.'
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