Revising Women - Eighteenth-Century Women''s Fiction and Social Engagement

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About the author

Paula R. Backscheider is the Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar in the Department of English at Auburn University. She is the author of several books, including Daniel Defoe: His Life, Spectacular Politics: Theatrical Power and Mass Culture in Early Modern England, and Reflections on Biography, and editor of Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century "Women's Fiction" and Social Engagement.

Summary

A collection of essays from feminist critics, each of which explores the history of the English novel, literature's place in cultural debate and women's studies. They begin with the fictions of the late 17th century and end with Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen.

Product details

• Authors: Paula R. Backscheider, Paula R. (Pepperell Eminent Scholar Backscheider
• Assisted by: Paula R. Backscheider (Editor), Paula R. (Pepperell Eminent Scholar Backscheider (Editor)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.10.2002
• EAN: 9780801870958
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-7095-8
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist