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Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800
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| Authors and Contributors |
Edited by Vivien Jones
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:348 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152 |
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| Category/Genre | Literary studies - c 1500 to c 1800 |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780521586801
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| Classifications | Dewey:820.9005 |
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| Audience | | Professional & Vocational | | Tertiary Education (US: College) | |
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| Illustrations |
2 Printed music items; 4 Tables, unspecified; 6 Halftones, unspecified
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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| Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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| Publication Date |
9 March 2000 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
This collection of new essays brings together feminist critics, cultural historians and historians of publishing to provide a unique and up-to-date introduction to women's writing and its contexts in the eighteenth century. It was during this period that women began to contribute in significantly large numbers to a rapidly-expanding print culture. This volume documents the range and diversity of that contribution. It analyses the social, legal and ideological constructions of women which female writers had to negotiate, and it explores women's writing across a wide spectrum of genres - from fiction to broadside ballads, meditative poetry to confessional memoirs - as well as women's involvement as printers, sellers and purchasers of printed texts. An invaluable overview of women and literary culture in the period, Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800 is also an important contribution to our understanding of women's roles in the emergent public sphere of print.
Reviews'An excellent companion ... first rate articles, up to date in terms of thought, scholarhsip and biography.' Choice
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