Publishing the woman writer in England, 1670-1750 / Leah Orr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orr, Leah, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women authors, English--17th century.

Women authors, English.

Women authors, English--18th century.

Authors and publishers--England--History--17th century.

Authors and publishers.

Authors and publishers--England--History--18th century.

England.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Based on a survey of nearly seven hundred works with female authors from this period, this book contends that authorship was constructed, not always by the author, for market appeal, that biography often supported an authorial persona rooted in the genre of the work, and that authorship was a role rather than an identity.

Contents:

Intro

Title page

Copyright page

Preface

Acknowledgments

Contents

List of Tables and Figures

Tables

Figures

1. Perspectives on Women Writers in Print since 1670

1.1 Eminent Ladies: Women's Literary History, 1752-1970

1.2 Feminism and Recovery: Women's Literary History since 1970

1.3 Women on Title Pages, 1670-1750: A Quantitative Overview

1.4 The Genres of Women's Writing

1.5 Case Study: Attribution, Uncertainty, and Gender: The Example of Love in Distress (1697)

2. Originality and Attribution: Establishing Authority in Print

2.1 Benefits and Costs of Authorship

2.2 Why Did Women Write? Why Did Women Publish?

2.3 Case Study: Aphra Behn's Paratextual Self-Fashioning

3. Mediating Women's Writing

3.1 Who Knew Whom? Helpers on the Path to Print

3.2 Three Kinds of Mediators

3.3 Case Study: Catharine Trotter/Cockburn and the Influence of Mediators

4. The Author as Subject: Problems of Biography

4.1 Biographical Criticism in an Age of Authorial Anonymity

4.2 Women's Autobiography, 1670-1750

4.3 The "Life" of the Author

4.4 Picturing Women Writers

4.5 Case Study: Laetitia Pilkington as Subject

5. Women in Translation

5.1 An Overview of Foreign Women Writers in English, 1670-1750

5.2 The Practice of Translation

5.3 Case Study: Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d'Aulnoy, and the Public Author

6. Real and Imagined Readers

6.1 Evidence of Actual Readers

6.2 Imagined Readers

6.3 Case Study: Anne Dacier for English Readers

Conclusion: Towards a New History of Women Writers in England

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 24, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Orr, Leah Publishing the Woman Writer in England, 1670-1750

ISBN:

0-19-198132-X

0-19-288631-2

0-19-288630-4