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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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.