Everyday revolutions
Subtitle: eighteenth-century women transforming public and private
By: edited by Diane E. Boyd and Marta Kvande.
Contributors: Boyd, Diane E., 1971-; Kvande, Marta, 1972-
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780874130072
Subjects: English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Women authors, English -- 18th century -- Political and social views.; Women in literature.; Women in politics.; Women in public life.; Women -- History -- 18th century.; Feminism -- History -- 18th century.; Women -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-278) and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction: reading women, reading public and private / Diane E. Boyd and Marta Kvande; value: Hanging on and hanging in : women's struggle to participate in public sphere debate / Paula R. Backscheider; value: "The constant action of our lab'ring hands" : Mary Collier's demystification of work and womanhood in the early eighteenth century / Aruna Krishnamurthy; value: Frances Brooke's environmental vandalism : carving sexual resistance on trees in The history of Emily Montague / Emily Smith; value: A space between : prostitutes negotiating the public and the private in memoir novels of eighteenth-century France / Alistaire Tallent; value: "I had rather be obscure. but I dare not" : women and methodism in the eighteenth century / Brett C. McInelly; value: Frances Burney and Frances Sheridan : epistolary fiction and the public sphere / Marta Kvande; value: Unspoken contracts : the carriage and women's work in Belinda / Diane E. Boyd; value: "A walking ought": displacement and the public sphere in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park / Shea Stuart; value: Order in the family court : maternal disruption in Chancery, Roxana, and Maria / Cheryl L. Nixon.