The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in Britain, 1660-1789

The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in Britain, 1660-1789
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The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in Britain, 1660-1789 brings together the most recent scholarship by leading scholars in the field to provide a comprehensive overview of women's writing in eighteenth-century Britain. The chapters discuss both canonical and lesser-known women writers in multiple genres, including poetry, drama, fiction and travel writing.

The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789

The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789
Author: Catherine Ingrassia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2015-04-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 131629823X

Women writers played a central role in the literature and culture of eighteenth-century Britain. Featuring essays on female writers and genres by leading scholars in the field, this Companion introduces readers to the range, significance and complexity of women's writing across multiple genres in Britain between 1660 and 1789. Divided into two parts, the Companion first discusses women's participation in print culture, featuring essays on topics such as women and popular culture, women as professional writers, women as readers and writers, and place and publication. Additionally, part one explores the ways women writers crossed generic boundaries. The second part contains chapters on many of the key genres in which women wrote including poetry, drama, fiction (early and later), history, the ballad, periodicals, and travel writing. The Companion also provides an introduction surveying the state of the field, an integrated chronology, and a guide to further reading.

The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing

The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing
Author: Laura Lunger Knoppers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2009-10-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139828363

Featuring the most frequently taught female writers and texts of the early modern period, this Companion introduces the reader to the range, complexity, historical importance, and aesthetic merit of women's writing in Britain from 1500–1700. Presenting key textual, historical, and methodological information, the volume exemplifies new and diverse approaches to the study of women's writing. The book is clearly divided into three sections, covering: how women learnt to write and how their work was circulated or published; how and what women wrote in the places and spaces in which they lived, worked, and worshipped; and the different kinds of writing women produced, from poetry and fiction to letters, diaries, and political prose. This structure makes the volume readily adaptable to course usage. The Companion is enhanced by an introduction that lays out crucial framework and critical issues, and by chronologies that situate women's writings alongside political and cultural events.

The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period

The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period
Author: Devoney Looser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2015-03-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316298310

The Romantic period saw the first generations of professional women writers flourish in Great Britain. Literary history is only now giving them the attention they deserve, for the quality of their writings and for their popularity in their own time. This collection of new essays by leading scholars explores the challenges and achievements of this fascinating set of women writers, including Jane Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth, and Mary Shelley alongside many lesser-known female authors writing and publishing during this period. Chapters consider major literary genres, including poetry, fiction, drama, travel writing, histories, essays, and political writing, as well as topics such as globalization, colonialism, feminism, economics, families, sexualities, aging, and war. The volume shows how gender intersected with other aspects of identity and with cultural concerns that then shaped the work of authors, critics, and readers.

A Literary History of Women's Writing in Britain, 1660-1789

A Literary History of Women's Writing in Britain, 1660-1789
Author: Susan Staves
Publisher:
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2006
Genre: English literature
ISBN: 9780511318764

Drawing on three decades of feminist scholarship, Susan Staves provides a comprehensive history of women's writing in Britain from the Restoration to the French Revolution. Arranged chronologically to emphasize the historical and literary contexts, this magisterial work includes a comprehensive bibliography and list of modern editions of the authors discussed.

The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English

The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English
Author: Lorna Sage
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 708
Release: 1999-09-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521668132

An alphabetized volume on women writers, major titles, movements, genres from medieval times to the present.

The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain

The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Author: Betty A. Schellenberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2005-06-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107320801

The Professionalisation of Women Writers in Eighteenth Century Britain is a full study of a group of women who were actively and ambitiously engaged in a range of innovative publications at the height of the eighteenth century. Using personal correspondence, records of contemporary reception, research into contemporary print culture and sociological models of professionalisation, Betty A. Schellenberg challenges oversimplified assumptions of women's cultural role in the period, focusing on those women who have been most obscured by literary history, including Frances Sheridan, Frances Brooke, Sarah Fielding and Charlotte Lennox.

Women's Writing, 1660-1830

Women's Writing, 1660-1830
Author: Jennie Batchelor
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2016-12-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137543825

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.