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The History of British Women's Writing, 1750-1830

Volume Five

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  1. Jacqueline M. Labbe
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Part of the book series: History of British Women's Writing (HBWW)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxix
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  2. Introduction: Defining ‘Women’s Writing’; or, Writing ‘The History’

    1. Introduction: Defining ‘Women’s Writing’; or, Writing ‘The History’

      • Jacqueline M. Labbe
      Pages 1-26

  3. 1750–1830: Overviews

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Women and Print Culture, 1750–1830

      • Michelle Levy
      Pages 29-46

    3. Women’s Travel Writing, 1750–1830

      • Katherine Turner
      Pages 47-60

  4. 1700–1800: Revolutions in Female Writing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
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    2. Bluestocking Women and the Negotiation of Oral, Manuscript, and Print Cultures

      • Betty A. Schellenberg
      Pages 63-83

    3. ‘[T]o strike a little out of a road already so much beaten’: Gender, Genre, and the Mid-Century Novel

      • Jennie Batchelor
      Pages 84-101

    4. Anglophone Welsh Women’s Poetry 1750–84: Jane Cave and Anne Penny

      • Sarah Prescott
      Pages 102-124

    5. The Poem that Ate America: Helen Maria Williams’s Ode on the Peace (1783)

      • Kate Davies
      Pages 125-149

    6. Picturing Benevolence against the Commercial Cry, 1750–98: Or, Sarah Fielding and the Secret Causes of Romanticism

      • Donna Landry
      Pages 150-171

    7. Women Writers and Abolition

      • Deirdre Coleman
      Pages 172-193

    8. Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft, and the Romance of Real Life

      • Stuart Curran
      Pages 194-206

    9. Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson and the First Year of the War with France

      • Harriet Guest
      Pages 207-230
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About this book

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.

Reviews

'...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 authors

Jennie Batchelor, Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature, University of Kent, UK Stephen C. Behrendt, George Holmes Distinguished University Professor of English, University of Nebraska, USA Betsy Bolton, Professor of English Literature, Swarthmore College, USA Deirdre Coleman, Robert Wallace Chair of English, University of Melbourne, Australia Stuart Curran, Vartan Gregorian Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, USA Kate Davies, Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Newcastle University, UK Harriet Guest, Professor in the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies and the Department of English and Related Literature, University of York, UK Donna Landry, Professor of English and American Literature, University of Kent, UK Harriet Kramer Linkin, Professor of English Literature, New Mexico State University, USA Michelle Levy, Associate Professor in the Department of English, Simon Fraser University, Canada Olivia Murphy, DPhil candidate, Worcester College, Oxford University UK Sarah Prescott, Senior Lecturer in English, Department of English and Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University, UK Diego Saglia, Associate, Professor of English Literature, University of Parma, Italy Betty A. Schellenburg, Professor of English, Simon Fraser University, Canada Katherine Turner, Associate Professor of English, Mary Baldwin College, USA

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