Cambridge Companion to Women''s Writing in Britain, 1660-1789

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Catherine Ingrassia; Part I. Women in Print Culture: 1. Women as readers and writers Mark Towsey; 2. The professional female writer Betty Schellenberg; 3. Place and publication Sarah Prescott; 4. Women and popular culture Paula R. Backscheider; 5. Genre crossings Kathryn R. King; Part II. Genres, Modes, and Forms: 6. Poetry David Shuttleton; 7. Drama Felicity Nussbaum; 8. History Rivka Swenson; 9. Satire Melinda A. Rabb; 10. Early fiction Nicola Parsons; 11. Later fiction Katherine Binhammer; 12. Travel writing Harriet Guest; 13. Ballads Ruth Perry; 14. Periodical writing Mary Waters; Guide to further reading.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Catherine Ingrassia is Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. She is the author of Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: A Culture of Paper Credit (Cambridge University Press, 1998); editor of a critical edition of Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela and Henry Fielding's Shamela (2004); and co-editor of A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel and Culture (2005) and the anthology British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth Century (2009).

Zusammenfassung

The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789 brings together the most recent scholarship by leading scholars in the field to provide a comprehensive overview of women's writing in eighteenth-century Britain. The chapters discuss both canonical and lesser-known women writers in multiple genres, including poetry, drama, fiction and travel writing.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Catherine Ingrassia, Catherine (Virginia Commonwealth Univer Ingrassia, Catherine E. Ingrassia
• Mitarbeit: Catherine Ingrassia (Herausgeber), Catherine (Virginia Commonwealth University) Ingrassia (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 20.04.2015
• EAN: 9781107600980
• ISBN: 978-1-107-60098-0
• Seiten: 288
• Serien: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; Schule und Lernen > Erwachsenenbildung/Volkshochschule