Women's life writing, 1700-1850 : gender, genre and authorship /
Cook, Daniel,1981-editor of compilation.
Culley, Amy,editor of compilation.
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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.
Includes bibliographical references.
The air of a romance: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu constructs her life / Isobel Grundy -- Barrett writing Burney : a life among the footnotes / Catherine Delafield -- An authoress to be let : reading Laetitia Pilkington's memoirs / Daniel Cook -- Sociability and life-writing : Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi / Felicity A. Nussbaum -- Journal letters and scriblerations : Frances Burney's life writing in Paris / Peter Sabor -- A model for the British Fair : French women's life-writing in Britain, 1680-1830 / Gillian Dow -- Autobiographical time and the spiritual "lives" of early Methodist women / Laura Davies -- Writing female biography : Mary Hays and the life-writing of religious dissent / Felicity James -- Prying into the recesses of history : women writers and the court memoir / Amy Culley -- The memoirs of Harriette Wilson : A courtesan's Byronic self-fashioning / Sharon M. Setzer -- Remembering Wollstonecraft : feminine friendship, female subjectivity and the "invention" of the feminist heroine / Mary L. Spongberg -- Jane Austen and Charlotte Smith : biography, autobiography and the writing of women's literary history / Jennie Batchelor.
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.
English prose literature
English prose literature
English prose literature
Autobiography
Women and literature
Women and literature
Authorship
Authorship