British Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century: Authorship, Politics and History

ISBN-13: 9781403949318 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 208 str.

Dr Jennie Batchelor; Cora Kaplan

Opis

British Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century highlights the ways in which women writers were key to the creation of the worlds of politics and letters in the period, reading the possibilities and limits of their engagement in those worlds as more complex and nuanced than earlier paradigms would suggest.

Recenzje

'This important book of new essays is a fitting tribute to the opening in 2003 of the Chawton House Library and Study Centre. Like the Chawton Library itself, Batchelor and Kaplan's collection is powerful evidence of the vitality of research and scholarship on women's writing in the long eighteenth century. Alert to the complex politics of authorship and gender, the case studies offered here are yet further evidence of women's involvement at the heart of eighteenth-century print culture. And in bringing together the work of established critics with that of younger scholars, they represent some of the most exciting work on this period currently available.' - Vivien Jones, Professor of Eighteenth-Century Gender and Culture, University of Leeds, UK

'With its many strong essays, sensible organization and contextualization in the introduction and in Grundy's closing essay, British Women's Writing is an important contribution to our understanding of female authorship in this period.' - Laura J. Rosenthal, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature

'...[a] fine volume...whets the appetite to read, to make sense of, and to write about more British women's texts of the long eighteenth century.' - Devoney Looser, The Age of Johnson

Spis treści

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; J.Batchelor & C.Kaplan PART I: AUTHORSHIP AND PRINT CULTURE Woman's Work: Labour, Gender and Authorship in the Novels of Sara Scott; J.Batchelor Anna Seward: Swan, Duckling or Goose?; N.Clarke Spectral Texts in Mansfield Park ; K.Halsey Romantic Patronage: Mary Robinson and Coleridge Revisited; J.Hawley Ivory Miniatures and the art of Jane Austen; J.Todd Mansfield Park - What did Jane Austen Really Write? The Texts of 1814 and 1816; B. Southam PART II: HISTORY AND POLITICS 'Thou monarch of my Panting Soul': Hobbesian Obligation and the Durability of Romance in Behn's Love Letters ; H.Thompson British Women Write the East after 1750: Revisiting a 'Feminine Orient'; F.A.Nussbaum 'Tied to Their Species By the Strongest of All Relations': Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rewriting of Race as Sensibility: M Rickman Hannah More and Conservative Feminism; H.Guest Chawton House: Gathering Old Books for a New Library; I.Grundy Index

O autorze

NORMA CLARKE Senior Lecturer of English Literature, Kingston University, UK ISOBEL GRUNDY Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Professor Emerita in the Department of English, University of Alberta, Canada HARRIET GUEST Professor in the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies and Department of English and Related Literatures, University of York, UK KATIE HALSEY PhD student, University of Cambridge, UK JUDITH HAWLEY Senior Lecturer, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK FELICITY A. NUSSBAUM Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles, USA MOI RICKMAN PhD Research Student, English Department, University of Southampton, UK BRIAN SOUTHAM Former university lecturer and teacher (now retired) HELEN THOMPSON Assistant Professor of English, Northwestern University, USA JANET TODD Francis Hutcheson Professor of English, University of Glasgow, UK