Women's Writing, 1660-1830
Feminisms and Futures
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Women's Writing, 1660-1830
Feminisms and Futures
About This Book
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 USanswer 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Frontmatter
- Preface: Writing and Reading the âRugged Realities of Lifeâ
- Introduction: Feminisms and Futures: Womenâs Writing 1660â1830
- Passing Judgement: The Place of the Aesthetic in Feminist Literary History
- Free Market Feminism? The Political Economy of Womenâs Writing
- Feminist Literary History: How Do We Know Weâve Won?
- Anon, Pseud and âBy a Ladyâ: The Spectre of Anonymity in Womenâs Literary History
- Authorial Performances: Actress, Author, Critic
- Pay, Professionalization and Probable Dominance? Women Writers and the Childrenâs Book Trade
- âThere Are Numbers of Very Choice Booksâ*: Book Ownership and the Circulation of Womenâs Texts, 1680â98
- Gender and the Material Turn
- Archipelagic Literary History: Eighteenth-Century Poetry from Ireland, Scotland and Wales
- The âBiographical Impulseâ and Pan-European Womenâs Writing
- Backmatter