Masters of the marketplace
Subtitle: British women novelists of the 1750s
By: edited by Susan Carlile
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bethlehem
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780982372005
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Challenging the status quo. Marriage in Haywood; or, amatory reading rewarded / Aleksondra Hultquist; title: The unprotected woman in Eliza Haywood's The history of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy / Karen Cajka; title: Lives, letters, and tales in Sarah Scott's Journey through every stage of life / Eve Tavor Bannet; title: Educations in epistemology. Sarah Fielding's Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia and the British historical novel / Kathleen M. Oliver; title: Arabella unbound: wit, judgment, and the cure of Lennox's female Quixote / Patricia L. Hamilton; title: Henrietta on page and stage / Susan Carlile; title: Creating community. The "latent seeds of coquetry": amatory fiction and the 1750's novel / Jennie Batchelor; title: "The sole business of ladies in romances": sharing histories in Charlotte Lennox's The female Quixote / Katharine Beutner; title: "To such as are willing to understand": considering Fielding's Community of imagined readers / Emily C. Friedman; title: Performing in the literary marketplace. The afterlife and strange surprising adventures of Haywood's Amatories (with thoughts on Betsy Thoughtless) / Kathryn R. King; title: Reading female readers: The female Quixote and female Quixotism / Marta Kvande; title: Putting women in their place: locating women novelists in the 1750s / Betty A. Schellenberg.