Revising women
Subtitle: eighteenth-century "women's fiction" and social engagement
By: edited by Paula R. Backscheider.
Contributors: Backscheider, Paula R.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Women -- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Feminist fiction, English -- History and criticism; Social problems in literature; Sex role in literature
Description: "Revising Women is a collection of essays by a distinguished group of feminist critics. Each essay is a contribution to the history of the English novel and demonstrates the "reactivation" of texts, a kind of criticism that produces rich contextualization in order to reveal the story beneath - not only of the individual writer but also of a text that is a cultural production with the potential to reveal why we and our society are as we are.

Developing ways of using history in relation to literature, each essay takes up large historical events and issues, and interprets in fine detail what individuals do with them." "The essays bring together a number of issues often discussed separately. Among these are the constructing power of socio-historical forces and of the individual creating writer and the works of male and female authors."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-264) and index.