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Title Living by the pen : early British women writers / edited by Dale Spender.

Imprint New York : Teachers College Press, c1992.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  823.5099287 L761    ---  Available
Description viii, 260 p. ; 24 cm.
Series Athene series
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents A vindication of the writing woman / Dale Spender -- Aphra Behn's Oroonoko : the politics of gender, race, and class / Heidi Hutner -- Preparatives to love : seduction as fiction in the works of Eliza Haywood / Ros Ballaster -- Sarah Fielding's self-destructing utopia : The adventures of David Simple / Carolyn Woodward -- Elizabeth Inchbald : not such a simple story / Katharine M. Rogers -- Charlotte Smith's feminism : a study of Emmeline and Desmond / Pat Elliott -- Charlotte Lennox's The female Quixote : a novel interrogation / Helen Thomson -- Fanny Burney : the tactics of subversion / Judy Simons -- Daddy's girl as motherless child : Maria Edgeworth and maternal romance : an essay in reassessment / Mitzi Myers -- Joanna Baillie and Mary Brunton : women of the manse / Mary McKerrow -- "The witchery of fiction" : Charlotte Smith, novelist / Mary Anne Schofield - - Romancing the novel : gender and genre in early theories of narrative / Ros Ballaster -- "Of use to her daughter" : maternal authority and early women novelists / Jane Spencer -- Violence against women in the novels of early British women writers / Katherine Anne Ackley -- The triumph of the form / Rosalind Miles -- Afterword : the wages of writing / Dale Spender.
Subject English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Sex role in literature.
Added Author Spender, Dale.
ISBN 0807762598 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807762601 (alk. paper)
0080374662 (alk. paper) :
0080374654 (pbk. : alk. paper) :

 
    
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