{"product_id":"womens-life-writing-17001850-gender-genre-and-authorship-9780230343078","title":"Womens Life Writing 17001850 Gender Genre and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection discusses British and Irish life writings by women in the period 1700-1850. It argues for the importance of women's life writing as part of the culture and practice of eighteenth-century and Romantic auto\/biography, exploring the complex relationships between constructions of femininity, life writing forms and models of authorship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is an ambitious and very attractive volume on a topic very much at the cutting edge of research in the 18th and 19th century, which will be widely reviewed and, I am sure, added to the list of essential reading for women's writing courses and life writing courses.\" Cora Kaplan, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Southampton, UK\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"These analyses of life writings - secular and spiritual, conservative and rebellious - will be valuable to literary scholars interested in genre creation and historians using autobiographical material.\" Recommended by Choice\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"Space precludes mentioning all twelve essays, but they are all fine pieces of scholarship. It is to the credit of the editors, Cook\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eand Culley, and all the contributors that the chapters so consistently and productively speak to each other. Women's Life Writing\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ewill undoubtedly become an important model and guide for future scholarship in the field.\" Melanie Bigold, SHARP News\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Gender, Genre, and Authorship; D.Cook \u0026amp; A.Culley The Air of a Romance: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Constructs her Life; I.Grundy Barrett Writing Burney: A Life Among the Footnotes; C.Delafield An Authoress to be Let: Reading Laetitia Pilkington's Memoirs; D.Cook Sociability and Life-Writing: Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi; F.A.Nussbaum Journal Letters and Scriblerations: Frances Burney's Life Writing in Paris; P.Sabor A Model for the British Fair? French Women's Life-Writing in Britain, 1680-1830; G.Dow Autobiographical Time and the Spiritual 'Lives' of Early Methodist Women; L.Davies Writing Female Biography: Mary Hays and the Life-Writing of Religious Dissent; F.James 'Prying into the Recesses of History': Women Writers and the Court Memoir; A.Culley The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson: A Courtesan's Byronic Self-Fashioning; S.M.Setzer Remembering Wollstonecraft: Feminine Friendship, Female Subjectivity and the 'Invention' of the Feminist Heroine; M.L.Spongberg Jane Austen and Charlotte Smith: Biography, Autobiography and the Writing of Women's Literary History; J.Batchelor Select Bibliography Index","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017661120855,"sku":"9780230343078","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/womens-life-writing-17001850-gender-genre-and-authorship-9780230343078","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}