Masters of the marketplace : British women novelists of the 1750s /
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| Imprint: | Bethlehem : Lehigh University Press, c2011. |
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| Description: | 267 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8366907 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Challenging the Status Quo
- Marriage in Haywood; or, Amatory Reading Rewarded
- The Unprotected Woman in Eliza Haywood's The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy
- Lives, Letters, and Tales in Sarah Scott's: Journey Through Every Stage of Life
- Part II. Educations in Epistemology
- Sarah Fielding's Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia and the British Historical Novel
- Arabella Unbound: Wit, Judgment, and the Cure of Lennox's Female Quixote
- Henrietta on Page and Stage
- Part III. Creating Community
- The ôlatent seeds of coquetryö: Amatory Fiction and the 1750s Novel
- ôThe Sole Business of Ladies in Romancesö: Sharing Histories in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote
- ôTo such as are willing to understandö: Considering Fielding's Community of Imagined Readers
- Part IV. Performing in the Literary Marketplace
- The Afterlife and Strange Surprising Adventures of Haywood's Amatories (with Thoughts on Betsy Thoughtless)
- Reading Female Readers: The Female Quixote and Female Quixotism
- Putting Women in Their Place: Locating Women Novelists in the 1750s
- Contributors
- Index
