Women''s Work - Labour, Gender, Authorship, 17501830

Informationen zum Autor Jennie Batchelor is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent. Klappentext Women's work challenges influential accounts about gender and the novel by revealing the complex ways in which labour (as material reality and philosophical concept) shaped the lives and writings of a number of women authors working in the second half of the long eighteenth century Zusammenfassung Women’s work challenges influential accounts about gender and the novel by revealing the complex ways in which labour (as material reality and philosophical concept) shaped the lives and writings of a number of women authors working in the second half of the long eighteenth century -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. The 'gift' of work: labour, narrative and community in the novels of Sarah Scott 2. Somebody's story: Charlotte Smith and the work of writing3. The 'business' of a woman's life and the making of the Female Philosopher: the works of Mary Wollstonecraft4. Women writers, the popular press and the Literary Fund, 1790-1830Coda: reading labour and writing women's literary historyBibliographyIndex

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jennie Batchelor, Jennie Dr Batchelor, Batchelor Jennie
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.05.2014
• EAN: 9780719095580
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9558-0
• Seiten: 268
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1700 To C 1800, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form