Women's life writing, 1700-1850 : gender, genre and authorship /
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Imprint: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, ©2012. |
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Description: | x, 253 pages ; 23 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8942643 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction: Gender, Genre and Authorship
- 1. The Air of a Romance: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Constructs Her Life
- 2. Barrett Writing Burney: A Life among the Footnotes
- 3. An Authoress to Be Let: Reading Laetitia Pilkington's Memoirs
- 4. Sociability and Life Writing: Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi
- 5. Journal Letters and Scriblerations: Frances Burney's Life Writing in Paris
- 6. A Model for the British Fair? French Women's Life Writing in Britain, 1680-1830
- 7. Autobiographical Time and the Spiritual 'Lives' of Early Methodist Women
- 8. Writing Female Biography: Mary Hays and the Life Writing of Religious Dissent
- 9. 'Prying into the Recesses of History': Women Writers and the Court Memoir
- 10. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson: A Courtesan's Byronic Self-Fashioning
- 11. Remembering Wollstonecraft: Feminine Friendship, Female Subjectivity and the 'Invention' of the Feminist Heroine
- 12. Jane Austen and Charlotte Smith: Biography, Autobiography and the Writing of Women's Literary History
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index