History of British Women's Writing: 1750-1830

Labbe, Jacqueline M. (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0230550711 / ISBN 13: 9780230550711

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: History of British Women's Writing: 1750-1830
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230550711
• ISBN 13: 9780230550711
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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