Prolific Ground - Landscape and British Women's Writing, 1690-1790

Prolific Ground investigates landownership as a crucial factor in the emergence of British women’s independence during the long eighteenth century. Staking a claim to the nation’s investment in land, women writers acquired a socio-political authority that otherwise eluded them. The landscapes that emerge in their writing testify to the socio-political power of land in this era.
 

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Introduction: Landscape Studies and British Women’s Literary History

1 Jane Barker’s Liminal Landscapes
2 Stewarding the Country House: Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
3 “And the Country Adjacent”: Sarah Scott’s Literary Landscaping
4 Elizabeth Montagu, Bluestocking Landscaper
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

NICOLLE JORDAN is an associate professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, where she has also served as director of women’s and gender studies.

Product details

• Authors: Nicolle Jordan
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2024
• EAN: 9781684485390
• ISBN: 978-1-68448-539-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 234 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 308 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies