British women writers and the writing of history, 1670-1820 / Devoney Looser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Looser, Devoney, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Historiography.

English prose literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

English prose literature.

English prose literature--18th century--History and criticism.

Women historians--Great Britain.

Women historians.

Great Britain--Historiography.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Adding their contributions to accounts of early modern writing refutes the assumption that historiography was an exclusive men's club and that fiction was the only prose genre open to women.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction: BritishWomenWriters and Historical Discourse

2 The True and Romantic History of Lucy Hutchinson's Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson

3 Lady MaryWortley Montagu: Historian of Her Own Time

4 Charlotte Lennox and the Study and Use of History

5 ''Deep Immers'd in the Historic Mine'': Catharine Macaulay's History in Letters

6 Hester Lynch Piozzi's Innite and Exact World History, Retrospection

7 Reading Jane Austen and Rewriting ''Herstory''

Notes

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-263) and index.

ISBN:

9780801876400

0-8018-7640-0

OCLC:

51504443