Women writers and the Edinburgh enlightenment
By: Pam Perkins
Series: Scottish cultural review of language and literature -- v. 15; Scottish cultural review of language and literature -- v. 15.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9789042031371; 9789042031388
Subjects: Women authors; Criticism and interpretation; Scottish fiction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-313) and index.
Table of contents: title: Excellent women, and not too blue : women writers in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Edinburgh; title: Enlightening the female mind : education, sociability, and the literary woman in the work of Elizabeth Hamilton; title: Incongruous things : primitivism and professionalism in the work of Anne Grant; title: Scarcely known to fame : the literary identities of Christian Isobel Johnstone; title: Modesty, money, and nostalgia : narratives of women's writing in Edinburgh's "age of greatness".