This period witnessed the first full flowering of women's writing in Britain.This illuminating volume features leading scholars who draw upon the last 25 years of scholarship and textual recovery to demonstrate the literary and cultural significance of women in the period, discussing writers such as Austen, Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. INDICE: List of Figures - Author Preface - Series Preface - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Chronology - Introduction: Defining 'Women's Writing'; or, Writing 'The History'; J.M.Labbe - PART I: 1750-1830: OVERVIEWS - Women and Print Culture, 1750-1830; M.Levy - Women's Travel Writing, 1750-1830; K.Turner - PART II: 1750-1800: REVOLUTIONS IN FEMALE WRITING - Bluestocking Women and the Negotiations of Oral, Manuscript and Print Cultures; B.A.Schellenberg - '[T]o strike a little out of a road already so much beaten': Gender, Genre and the Mid-Century Novel; J.Batchelor - Anglophone Welsh Women's Poetry 1750-1784: Jane Cave and Anne Penny; S.Prescott - The Poem That Ate America: Helen Maria Williams' Ode on the Peace (1783); K.Davies - Picturing Benevolence Against the Commercial Cry, 1750-1798: or, Sarah Fielding and the Secret Causesof Romanticism; D.Landry - Women Writers and Abolition; D . Coleman - Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft, and the Romance of Real Life; S.Curran - Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, and the First Year of War with France; H.Guest - PART III: 1800-1830: WORLDS OF WRITING - The Porter Sisters, Women's Writing, andHistorical Fiction; D.Looser - Joanna Baillie's Emblematic Theatre; B.Bolton - National Internationalism: Women's Writings and European Literature, 1800-1830; D.Saglia - Jane Austen's Critical Response to Women's Writing: 'a good spot for fault-finding'; O.Murphy - Mary Tighe and the Coterie of British Women Poets in Psyche; H.K.Linkin - Influence, Anxiety, and Erasure in Women's Writing: Romantic Becomes Victorian; S.C. Behrendt - Bibliography - Index -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-55071-1
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 376
- Fecha Publicación: 17/09/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés