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

AvSusan Staves

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

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Drawing on three decades of feminist scholarship bent on rediscovering lost and abandoned women writers, Susan Staves provides a comprehensive history of women's writing in Britain from the Restoration to the French Revolution. This major work of criticism also offers fresh insights about women's writing in all literary forms, not only fiction, but also poetry, drama, memoir, autobiography, biography, history, essay, translation and the familiar letter. Authors celebrated in their own time and who have been neglected, and those who have been revalued and studied, are given equal attention. The book's organisation by chronology and its attention to history challenge the way we periodise literary history. Each chapter includes a list of key works written in the period covered, as well as a narrative and critical assessment of the works. This magisterial work includes a comprehensive bibliography and list of prevalent editions of the authors discussed.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-09-07
Mått:162 x 235 x 38 mm
Vikt:1 005 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:548
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521858656

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Susan Staves is Paul Prosswimmer Professor of Humanities Emerita at Brandeis University.

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Review of the hardback: 'The decades of expertise evident here in the seemingly effortless syntheses of historical movements, and incisive arguments about a wide spectrum of authors are presented in wonderful prose, like backbone under fine linen. Any serious scholar of early women writers must own this book. As an aid to research it is a treat; as a teaching resource, a trove; as a meditation on what we are all about in our current reading of early women's texts, a challenge.' Chantel Lavoie, Eighteenth-Century Book Reviews Online

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. Public women: the Restoration to the death of Aphra Behn, 1660–1689; 2. Partisans of virtue and religion, 1689–1702; 3. Politics, gallantry, and ladies in the reign of Queen Anne 1702–1714; 4. Battle joined, 1715–1737; 5. Women as members of the literary family, 1737–1756; 6. Bluestockings and sentimental writers, 1756–1776; 7. Romance and comedy, 1777–1789; Recommended modern editions; Select bibliography.