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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Pamela Cheek, Pamela L Cheek, Pamela L. Cheek
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780812251487
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5148-7
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Haney Foundation; Haney Foundation; Haney Foundation Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism