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Economic imperatives for women's writing in early modern Europe / edited by Carme Font Paz and Nina Geerdink.

Van Pelt Library PN471 .E25 2018
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Font Paz, Carme, editor.
Geerdink, Nina, editor.
Series:
Women writers in history ; 2.
Women writers in history ; volume 2
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
European literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
European literature.
Women authors, European--Early modern, 1500-1700.
Women authors, European.
Women authors, European--Economic conditions.
Women and literature--Europe--History--Early modern, 1500-1700.
Women and literature.
Authorship--Economic aspects--Europe--History--Early modern, 1500-1700.
Authorship.
Authors and patrons--History--Early modern, 1500-1700.
Authors and patrons.
Literature publishing--Europe--History--Early modern, 1500-1700.
Literature publishing.
European literature--Women authors.
History.
Authorship--Economic aspects.
Economic conditions.
Europe.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Biographies.
Physical Description:
x, 262 pages ; 25 cm.
Place of Publication:
Leiden ; Boston : Brill/Rodopi, [2018]
Summary:
"The study of women's writing has become a lively field that has partaken in and given rise to many new directions in the broader field of literary studies"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction: women, professionalisation, and patronage / Carme Font Paz and Nina Geerdink
Women authors' reputation and its relationship to money earned: some early French writers as examples / Suzan van Dijk
Words for sale: early modern Spanish women's literary economy / Nieves Baranda
Fighting for her profession: Dorothe's Engelbretsdatter's discourse of self-defence / Marie Nedregotten Sørbø
Writing for patronage or patronage for writing?: two case studies in seventeenth-century and post-restoration women's poetry in Britain / Carme Font Paz
Possibilities of patronage: the Dutch poet Elisabeth Hoofman and her German patrons / Nina Geerdink
Between patronage and professional writing: the situation of eighteenth century women of letters in Venice: the example of Luisa Bergalli Gozzi / Rotraud von Kulessa
From Queen's librarian to voice of the Neapolitan Republic: Eleonora de Fonseca Pimentel / Irene Zanini-Cordi
"[S]ome employment in the translating way": economic imperatives in Charlotte Lennox's career as a translator / Marianna D'Ezio
Beating the odds: Sophie Albrecht (1756-1840), a successful woman writer and publisher in eighteenth-century Germany / Berit C.R. Royer.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9789004382992
9004382992
OCLC:
1041880106

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