Women, Writing and the Public Sphere, 17001830
Contributors: Elizabeth Eger (Editor); Charlotte Grant (Editor); Clíona Ó Gallchoir (Editor); Penny Warburton (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 19, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780521771061
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Political science & theory; Women's studies; History; Europe - Great Britain - General; Social Science; Sociology; Women's Studies - History; Women in public life; Gender Studies; History-Europe - Great Britain - General; Social Science / Gender Studies; Social Science-Gender Studies; Women in public life--Great Britain--History; Great Britain
First sentence: The coffee-house has a privileged status in accounts by historians and sociologists of the early eighteenth century, in which it figures as the paradigmatic social institution of the profound and various transformations in English society in this period.