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The History of British Women's Writing, 1750-1830
  • Author : J. Labbe
  • Release Date : 20 August 2010
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 363
  • ISBN 13 : 9780230297012
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Book excerpt: 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.

The History of British Women s Writing 1750 1830

The History of British Women s Writing 1750 1830

Author : J. Labbe
Publisher : Springer
Genre : Social Science
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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....

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The History of British Women s Writing 1830 1880

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Publisher : Springer
Genre : Literary Criticism
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The History of British Women s Writing 1690 1750

The History of British Women s Writing 1690 1750

Author : R. Ballaster
Publisher : Springer
Genre : Social Science
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Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Women s Writing 1660 1830

Author : Jennie Batchelor,Gillian Dow
Publisher : Springer
Genre : Social Science
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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 ...

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The History of British Women s Writing 1920 1945

Author : M. Joannou
Publisher : Springer
Genre : Social Science
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Featuring sixteen contributions from recognized authorities in their respective fields, this superb new mapping of women's writing ranges from feminine middlebrow novels to Virginia Woolf's modernist aesthetics, from women's literary journalism to crime fiction, and from West End drama to the literature of Scotland, Ireland and Wales....

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Author : Lisa Kasmer
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
Genre : History
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Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760-1830 argues that British women’s history and historical fiction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century changed not only the shape but also the political significance of women's writing. As history writing in general became more literary and characterized by sentiment in ...

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Publisher : Springer
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Publisher : Springer
Genre : Literary Criticism
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The ranks of English women writers rose steeply in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, contributing to the era’s revolutionary social movements as well as to transforming literary genres in prose and poetry. The phenomena of ‘the new’ — ‘New Women’, ‘New Unionism’, ‘New Imperialism’, ‘New Ethics’, ‘New Critics’, ‘...

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Publisher : Springer
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During the seventeenth century, in response to political and social upheavals such as the English Civil Wars, women produced writings in both manuscript and print. This volume represents recent scholarship that has uncovered new texts as well as introduced new paradigms to further our understanding of women's literary history during ...

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Publisher : Springer
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Publisher : Springer
Genre : Literary Criticism
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