Heroines and Local Girls - The Transnational Emergence of Women s Writing in Long Eighteenth

Cheek explores the rise of women's writing as a distinct, transnational category in Britain and Europe over the long 18th century, characterized by stories about heroines who transcend their gendered destiny.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Chapter 1. Networks of Women Writers Circa 1785-87
Chapter 2. Two Quarrels
Chapter 3. Ravishing and Romance Language
Chapter 4. The Repertoire of the School for Girls
Chapter 5. Heroines and Local Girls
Chapter 6. Heroines in the World
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Pamela L. Cheek is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of New Mexico and author of Sexual Antipodes: Enlightenment Globalization and the Placing of Sex.

Zusammenfassung

In Heroines and Local Girls, Pamela L. Cheek explores the rise of women's writing as a distinct, transnational category in Britain and Europe over the long eighteenth century, characterized by stories about heroines who transcend their gendered destiny.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Pamela Cheek, Pamela L Cheek, Pamela L. Cheek
• Verlag: University of pennsylvania pr
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780812251487
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5148-7
• Seiten: 280
• Serien: Haney Foundation; Haney Foundation; Haney Foundation Series
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Medien, Kommunikation > Journalistik