Women and Literature in Britain, 17001800
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 13, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780521586801
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; History and criticism; Gender Studies; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature--Women authors--History and criticism; Social Science / Gender Studies; 18th century; English literature; Great Britain; History; Women Authors; Women and literature
First sentence: Within the emergent class society of eighteenth-century Britain, to belong to the middle and to be female was to be in a position of agency and influence in the formation of social relations.