Synopses & Reviews
This period witnessed the first full flowering of women's writing in Britain. This illuminating volume features leading scholars who draw upon the last 25 years of scholarship and textual recovery to demonstrate the literary and cultural significance of women in the period, discussing writers such as Austen, Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley.
Review
'...this volume is essential reading for scholars working in the field, and a superb introduction for those new to it.' - Benjamin Dabby, Victoriographies
'...this important collection reflects the great diversity and ingenuity of women's literary contributions in this period, their readiness to ask 'big questions' and the ideational connections which they themselves generated in the intellectual networks in which they worked.' - Christina Davidson, Women: A Cultural Review
About the Author
JACQUELINE M. LABBE teaches and researches in the area of British Romantic poetry and poetics at the University of Warwick, UK. She has published widely on Charlotte Smith, the poetry and novels of the Romantic period, and nineteenth-century children's literature.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Author Preface
Series Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Chronology
Introduction: Defining 'Women's Writing'; or, Writing 'The History'; J.M.Labbe
PART I: 1750-1830: OVERVIEWS
Women and Print Culture, 1750-1830; M.Levy
Women's Travel Writing, 1750-1830; K.Turner
PART II: 1750-1800: REVOLUTIONS IN FEMALE WRITING
Bluestocking Women and the Negotiations of Oral, Manuscript and Print Cultures; B.A.Schellenberg
'[T]o strike a little out of a road already so much beaten': Gender, Genre and the Mid-Century Novel; J.Batchelor
Anglophone Welsh Women's Poetry 1750-1784: Jane Cave and Anne Penny; S.Prescott
The Poem That Ate America: Helen Maria Williams' Ode on the Peace (1783); K.Davies
Picturing Benevolence Against the Commercial Cry, 1750-1798: or, Sarah Fielding and the Secret Causes of Romanticism; D.Landry
Women Writers and Abolition; D.Coleman
Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft, and the Romance of Real Life; S.Curran
Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, and the First Year of War with France; H.Guest
PART III: 1800-1830: WORLDS OF WRITING
The Porter Sisters, Women's Writing, and Historical Fiction; D.Looser
Joanna Baillie's Emblematic Theatre; B.Bolton
National Internationalism: Women's Writings and European Literature, 1800-1830; D.Saglia
Jane Austen's Critical Response to Women's Writing: 'a good spot for fault-finding'; O.Murphy
Mary Tighe and the Coterie of British Women Poets in Psyche; H.K.Linkin
Influence, Anxiety, and Erasure in Women's Writing: Romantic Becomes Victorian; S.C. Behrendt
Bibliography
Index