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