Women's life writing, 1700-1850 : gender, genre and authorship /

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Imprint:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, ©2012.
Description:	x, 253 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. English prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Autobiography -- Women authors. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Authorship -- History -- 18th century. Authorship -- History -- 19th century. Authorship. Autobiography -- Women authors. English prose literature. English prose literature -- Women authors. Women and literature. Great Britain. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8942643

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Other authors / contributors:	Cook, Daniel, 1981- editor of compilation. Culley, Amy, editor of compilation.
ISBN:	9780230343078 0230343074
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	This collection of new essays by international scholars discusses British and Irish life writings by women in the period 1700-1850. It argues for the importance of women's life writing, both within women's literary history and as an integral part of the culture and practice of eighteenth-century and Romantic auto/biography. The essays presented here reveal women's innovative and diverse experiments with life writing and highlight the complex relationships between conceptions of femininity, auto/biographical forms, and models of authorship in the period. They advance our understanding of canonical women writers while also recovering neglected authors, genres, and traditions to suggest the various ways in which female lives might be narrated in this period.

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

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