A literary history of women's writing in Britain, 1660-1789

Drawing on three decades of feminist scholarship bent on rediscovering lost and abandoned women writers, Susan Staves provides a comprehensive history of women's writing in Britain from the Restoration to the French Revolution. This major work of criticism also offers fresh insights about women...

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1. Verfasser: Staves, Susan 1942- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2006
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  • Public women: the Restoration to the death of Aphra Behn, 1660-1689
  • Partisans of virtue and religion, 1689-1702
  • Politics, gallantry, and ladies in the reign of Queen Anne, 1702-1714
  • Battle joined, 1715-1737
  • Women as members of the literary family, 1737-1756
  • Bluestockings and sentimental writers, 1756-1776
  • Romance and comedy, 1777-1789