Women's Writing, 1660-1830
Women's Writing, 1660-1830

Author: Jennie Batchelor

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-12-19

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1137543825

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This book is about mapping the future of eighteenth-century women’s writing and feminist literary history, in an academic culture that is not shy of declaring their obsolescence. It asks: what can or should unite us as scholars devoted to the recovery and study of women’s literary history in an era of big data, on the one hand, and ever more narrowly defined specialization, on the other? Leading scholars from the UK and US answer this question in thought-provoking, cross-disciplinary and often polemical essays. Contributors attend to the achievements of eighteenth-century women writers and the scholars who have devoted their lives to them, and map new directions for the advancement of research in the area. They collectively argue that eighteenth-century women’s literary history has a future, and that feminism was, and always should be, at its heart. Featuring a Preface by Isobel Grundy, and a Postscript by Cora Kaplan.

Women and Material Culture, 1660-1830
Women and Material Culture, 1660-1830

Author: J. Batchelor

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-06-15

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0230223095

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This book comprises twelve illustrated, interdisciplinary essays on gender and material culture across the eighteenth century. These essays point to the many ways in which gender mediated and was shaped by the consumption and production of goods and elucidate the complex relationships between material and social practice in the period.

Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800
Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800

Author: Vivien Jones

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-03-09

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780521586801

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This book, first published in 2000, is an authoritative volume of new essays on women's writing and reading in the eighteenth century.

Novel Histories
Novel Histories

Author: Lisa Kasmer

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson

Published: 2012-01-16

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1611474965

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Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760–1830 argues that British women’s history and historical fiction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries changed not only the shape but also the political significance of women’s writing. At a time when women’s participation in the republic of letters was both celebrated and reviled, these authors took cues from developments that revolutionized British history writing to push the limits of narrated history to respond to contemporary national politics. Through an examination of the conventions of historical and literary genres; historiography during the period; and the gendering of civic and literary roles, this study shows not only a social, political, and literary lineage among women’s history writing and fiction but also among women’s writing and the writing of history.

Literary Relations
Literary Relations

Author: Jane Spencer

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2005-10-27

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 0199262969

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The English literary tradition has been constituted as a patriarchal family. Great fathers are supposed to pass on a place to worthy sons, and the status of women's writing within the canon is contested. This book shows how kinship and mentoring relationships between writers helped to form the national tradition. Writers featured include Dryden, Congreve, Johnson, Burney, the Fieldings, the Wordsworths, and Austen.