Women's Life Writing, 1700-1850 : Gender, Genre and Authorship / edited by D. Cook, A. Culley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cook, D., Editor.

Contributor:

Cook, D., Editor.

Culley, A., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex.

Literature.

European literature.

Literature, Modern--18th century.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--19th century.

European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600.

Gender Studies.

European Literature.

Eighteenth-Century Literature.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.

Local Subjects:

Gender Studies.

Literature.

European Literature.

Eighteenth-Century Literature.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2012.

Place of Publication:

Springer Nature 2016

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection discusses British and Irish life writings by women in the period 1700-1850. It argues for the importance of women's life writing as part of the culture and practice of eighteenth-century and Romantic auto/biography, exploring the complex relationships between constructions of femininity, life writing forms and models of authorship.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction: Gender, Genre and Authorship; 1 The Air of a Romance: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Constructs Her Life; 2 Barrett Writing Burney: A Life among the Footnotes; 3 An Authoress to Be Let: Reading Laetitia Pilkington''s Memoirs; 4 Sociability and Life Writing: Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi; 5 Journal Letters and Scriblerations: Frances Burney''s Life Writing in Paris; 6 A Model for the British Fair? French Women''s Life Writing in Britain, 1680-1830; 7 Autobiographical Time and the Spiritual ''Lives'' of Early Methodist Women

8 Writing Female Biography: Mary Hays and the Life Writing of Religious Dissent9 ''Prying into the Recesses of History'': Women Writers and the Court Memoir; 10 The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson: A Courtesan''s Byronic Self-Fashioning; 11 Remembering Wollstonecraft: Feminine Friendship, Female Subjectivity and the ''Invention'' of the Feminist Heroine; 12 Jane Austen and Charlotte Smith: Biography, Autobiography and the Writing of Women''s Literary History; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137030771

1137030771