Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800 is unique in providing an authoritative, up-to-date overview of eighteenth-century women's writing and its contexts. The contributors are well-known feminist literary critics, cultural historians and historians of publishing. They discuss the construction of women, and women's writing across a wide range of genres, including essays on ideas of femininity, women and race, changing family structures, women and the law, and women as publishers and as readers. This book will be an invaluable resource both for students and experts in the field.
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"...energizing, engaging, and an excellent roundup of perspectives on the state of research on women and their relationships to literature in the eighteenth century." Eighteenth-Century Studies
"...energizing, engaging, and an excellent roundup of perspectives on the state of research on women and their relationships to literature in the eighteenth century." Eighteenth-Century Studies
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Women and Literature in Britain, 1700 1800 is unique in providing an authoritative, up-to-date overview of eighteenth-century women's writing and its contexts. Its contributors are well-known feminist literary critics, cultural historians and historians of publishing. They discuss the construction of women and women's writing across a wide range of genres, including essays on ideas of femininity, women and race, changing family structures, women and the law, and women as publishers and as readers. This book will be an invaluable resource both for students and experts in the field.
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Within the emergent class society of eighteenth-century Britain, to belong to the middle and to be female was to be in a position of agency and influence in the formation of social relations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
supposed sexual character, women printers, civic subjects, exclusion from citizenship, print trades, women buyers, bounded sphere, star actress Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Oxford University Press, Aphra Behn, Clarendon Press, Hannah More, Cambridge University Press, Eliza Haywood, Jane Austen, Rights of Woman, Penguin Books, Sir George, Mary Wollstonecraft, Samuel Richardson, Tace Sowle, Betsy Thoughtless, Sarah Scott, Elizabeth Montagu, Frances Burney, Hannah Snell, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hester Thrale, Janet Todd, Los Angeles, Margaret Anne Doody, South Sea Bubble New!
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Within the emergent class society of eighteenth-century Britain, to belong to the middle and to be female was to be in a position of agency and influence in the formation of social relations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
supposed sexual character, women printers, civic subjects, exclusion from citizenship, print trades, women buyers, bounded sphere, star actress Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Oxford University Press, Aphra Behn, Clarendon Press, Hannah More, Cambridge University Press, Eliza Haywood, Jane Austen, Rights of Woman, Penguin Books, Sir George, Mary Wollstonecraft, Samuel Richardson, Tace Sowle, Betsy Thoughtless, Sarah Scott, Elizabeth Montagu, Frances Burney, Hannah Snell, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hester Thrale, Janet Todd, Los Angeles, Margaret Anne Doody, South Sea Bubble New!
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- Aphra Behn (New Casebooks) by Janet Todd on 8 pages
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Dover Thrift Editions) by Mary Wollstonecraft on 8 pages
- The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems (Signet Classic Poetry Series) by Alexander Pope on 5 pages
- Reflections on the Revolution in France & The Rights of Man by Edmund Burke on 4 pages
- Knowing British History: The Eighteenth Century v. 6 by L.F. Hobley on page 108, page 196, and page 216
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- Women and Poetry, 1660-1750 by David E. Shuttleton on 4 pages
- Pope to Burney, 1714-1779: Scriblerians to Bluestockings (Transitions) by Moyra Haslett in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Eighteenth-Century Criminal Transportation by Gwenda Morgan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Hearts and Minds: Irish Culture and Society under The Act of Union (Princess Grace Irish Library Series,) by Bruce Stewart on page 109
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