Author: Janet Todd
Publisher: Totowa, N.J. : Rowman & Allanheld
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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"A dictionary of British and American women writers" captures the lives and contributions of almost 500 women writers. Each entry is intended to entertain as well as to inform.
Author: Janet Todd
Publisher: Totowa, N.J. : Rowman & Allanheld
ISBN: 9780847671250
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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"A dictionary of British and American women writers" captures the lives and contributions of almost 500 women writers. Each entry is intended to entertain as well as to inform.
Author: Barbara Joan Horwitz
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810833159
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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A guide to British women authors, their works, and the writing about them.
Author: Vivien Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521586801
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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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.
Author: Jennie Batchelor
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137543825
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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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.
Author: Catherine Ingrassia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110701316X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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Essays by leading scholars provide a comprehensive overview of women writers and their work in Restoration and eighteenth-century Britain.
Author: M. Waters
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230514510
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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This book examines professional literary criticism by Romantic-era British women to reveal that, while developing a conscious professionalism, women literary critics helped to shape the aesthetic models that defined Romantic-era literary values and made the British literary heritage a source of national pride. Women critics understood the contested nature of aesthetics and the public implications of aesthetic values on questions such as morality, both public and private, the nation's cultural heritage, even the essential qualities of Britishness itself.
Author: Leah Orr
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192886290
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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In the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the 'woman writer' emerged as a category of authorship in England. Publishing the Woman Writer in England, 1670-1750 seeks to uncover how exactly this happened and the ways publishers tried to market a new kind of author to the public. Based on a survey of nearly seven hundred works with female authors from this period, this book contends that authorship was constructed, not always by the author, for market appeal, that biography often supported an authorial persona rooted in the genre of the work, and that authorship was a role rather than an identity. Through an emphasis on paratexts, including prefaces, title pages, portraits, and biographical notes, Leah Orr analyses the representation of women writers in this period of intense change to make two related arguments. First, women writers were represented in a variety of ways as publishers sought successful models for a new kind of writer in print. Second, a new approach is needed for studying early women writers and others who occupy gaps in the historical record. This book shows that a study of the material contexts of printed books is one way to work with the evidence that survives. It therefore begins with a very familiar kind of author-centric literary history and deconstructs it to conclude with a reception-centered history that takes a more encompassing view of authorship. In addition to analysis of many little-known and anonymous authors, case studies include Aphra Behn, Catharine Trotter/Cockburn, Laetitia Pilkington, Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, and Anne Dacier.
Author: Katherine Turner
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351807749
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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This title was first published in 2001: Hundreds of European travelogues produced by British travellers between 1750 and 1800 remain out of sight in most libraries and have generally been out of print since the 18th century. While many people with a working knowledge of the 18th century are familiar with works including Sterne's "A Sentimental Journey" and Smollett's "Travels through France and Italy", those produced by less "literary" travellers are largely unknown. This study aims to recreate the world of 18th-century travel writing in order to illuminate its central role in shaping Britain's emerging sense of national identity - an identity which proves to be more complex an less homogeneous than some cultural and historical studies would suggest. The author finds that the developing discourse of national character is bound up with questions of gender: national and authorial virtue are projected in terms of appropriately gendered behaviour, for male and female travel writers alike. In turn, gender intersects with class, most obviously in the tendency to denigrate aristocratic travellers as effeminate and celebrate the more manly activities of the middle-class traveller. These then - national identity, authorship and gender - are the central preoccupations of the study
Author: Mary Waters
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 113709821X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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This timely anthology offers a broad selection of critical texts - introductions, prefaces, periodical essays, literary reviews - written by women of the Romantic era. The collection offers fuel for some of the most topical debates in British Romantic period studies including professionalism, nationalism and the literary canon.
