Bluestocking Feminism, Volume 3
Bluestocking Feminism, Volume 3

Author: Gary Kelly

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-28

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 104024971X

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Feminist scholarship and criticism has retrieved the Bluestocking women from their marginal position in 18th-century literature. This work collects the principal writings of these women, together with a selection of their letters. Each volume is annotated and all texts are edited and reset.

A Literary History of Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789
A Literary History of Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789

Author: Susan Staves

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-09-07

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 1139458582

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Drawing on three decades of feminist scholarship bent on rediscovering lost and abandoned women writers, Susan Staves provides a comprehensive history of women's writing in Britain from the Restoration to the French Revolution. This major work of criticism also offers fresh insights about women's writing in all literary forms, not only fiction, but also poetry, drama, memoir, autobiography, biography, history, essay, translation and the familiar letter. Authors celebrated in their own time and who have been neglected, and those who have been revalued and studied, are given equal attention. The book's organisation by chronology and its attention to history challenge the way we periodise literary history. Each chapter includes a list of key works written in the period covered, as well as a narrative and critical assessment of the works. This magisterial work includes a comprehensive bibliography and list of prevalent editions of the authors discussed.

What Jane Austen's Characters Read (and Why)
What Jane Austen's Characters Read (and Why)

Author: Susan Allen Ford

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2024-07-11

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1350416746

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The first detailed account of Austen's characters' reading experience to date, this book explores both what her characters read and what their literary choices would have meant to Austen's own readership, both during her life and today. Jane Austen was a voracious and extensive reader, so it's perhaps no surprise that many of her characters are also readers-from Mr. Collins in Pride and Prejudice to Fanny Price in Mansfield Park. Beginning by looking at Austen's own reading as well as her interest in readers' responses to her work, the book then focuses on each of her novels, looking at the particulars of her characters' reading and unpacking the multiple (and often surprising) ways in which what they read informs our reading. What Jane Austen's Characters Read (and Why) uses Austen's own love of reading to invite us to rethink the ways in which she imagined her characters and their lives beyond the novels.