Women''s Work - Labour, Gender, Authorship, 1750-1830

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, informed the lives and writing of a number of middling and genteel women authors publishing between 1750 and 1830.This book provides a particularly rich, yet largely neglected, seam of texts for exploring the vexed relationship between gender, work and writing. The four chapters that follow contain thoroughly contextualized case studies of the treatment of manual, intellectual and domestic labour in the work and careers of Sarah Scott, Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft and women applicants to the writer's charity, the Literary Fund. By making women's work visible in our studies of female-authored fiction of the period, Batchelor reveals the crucial role that these women played in articulating debates about the gendered division of labour, the (in)compatibility of women's domestic and professional lives and the status and true value of women's work that shaped eighteenth-century culture as surely as they shape our own. 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 AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. 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 historyBibliography

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jennie Batchelor, Batchelor Jennie
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.06.2010
• EAN: 9780719082573
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8257-3
• Seiten: 264
• Themen: 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