The Future of Feminist Eighteenth-Century Scholarship: Beyond Recovery

ISBN-13: 9780367667382 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 186 str.

Robin Runia

Opis

There is an unfortunate argument being made that feminist scholarship of eighteenth-century literary studies has fulfilled its potential in academic circles. The Future of Eighteenth-Century Feminist Scholarship: Beyond Recovery shows us otherwise. Each of the essays in this volume reaffirms the feminist principles that form the foundatio

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Robin Runia

Concepts

Chapter 1: History without Trauma: Recovering Bodily Loss in the Eighteenth Century

Cynthia Richards

Chapter 2: Lydia Still: Adolescent Wildness in Pride and Prejudice

Shawn Lisa Maurer

Intellects and Aesthetics

Chapter 3: Philosophy and/in Verse: Jane Barker’s "Farewell to Poetry" and the Anatomy of Emotion

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

Chapter 4: Beyond the Poet-Physician: Letitia Landon’s Reader-Centered Therapy

Brittany Pladek

Politics

Chapter 5: (Im)prudent Travel:The Politics of Location and the Gendered Experience in Mary Wollstonecraft’s and Mary Shelley’s Travel Writing

Stacey Kikendall

Chapter 6: Fantasies of Emancipation:

Collaborations and Contestations in The History of Mary Prince

Emily MN Kugler

Texts

Chapter 7: Recovery and Translation in Cross-Channel Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writing

Kate Parker

Chapter 8: The ‘English Sappho’s’ Daughter: Reading the Works of Maria Elizabeth Robinson

Jennifer Airey

Chapter 9: Maria Edgeworth’s Correspondence: Lock and Key

Robin Runia

O autorze

Robin Runia is Assistant Professor of English at Xavier University of Louisiana