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 new work of criticism also offers fresh insights a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description A literary history of women's writing in Britain, 1660 - 1789 |
| Summary: | "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 new work of criticism also offers fresh insights about women's writing in all literary forms, not only fiction, but also poetry, drama, memoir, autobiography, biography, history, essay, translation, and the familiar letter. Focusing on the texts women created, rather, than the lives they led, Staves illuminates the central role women's diverse accomplishments in the art of writing played in the literary history of the period."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 536 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 496-512) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780521858656 0521858658 |