British Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century Authorship, Politics and History

by Kaplan, Cora; Batchelor, Jennie

• ISBN13: 9781403949318
• ISBN10: 140394931X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-29
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

British Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century highlights the ways in which women writers were key to the creation of the worlds of politics and letters in the period, reading the possibilities and limits of their engagement in those worlds as more complex and nuanced than earlier paradigms would suggest.

Author Biography

Cora Kaplan is Professor of English at the University of Southampton. Jennie Batchelor is Lecturer in English at the University of Kent.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
Acknowledgements	viii
Notes on the Contributors	ix
Introduction	1	(16)
Jennie Batchelor
Cora Kaplan
Part I Authorship and Print Culture	17	(88)
Woman's Work: Labour, Gender and Authorship in the Novels of Sarah Scott	19	(15)
Jennie Batchelor
Anna Seward: Swan, Duckling or Goose?	34	(14)
Norma Clarke
Spectral Texts in Mansfield Park	48	(14)
Katie Halsey
Romantic Patronage: Mary Robinson and Coleridge Revisited	62	(14)
Judith Hawley
Ivory Miniatures and the Art of Jane Austen	76	(12)
Janet Todd
Mansfield Park -- What did Jane Austen Really Write? The Texts of 1814 and 1816	88	(17)
Brian Southam
Part II History and Politics	105	(82)
`Thou monarch of my Panting Soul': Hobbesian Obligation and the Durability of Romance in Aphra Behn's Love-Letters	107	(14)
Helen Thompson
British Women Write the East after 1750: Revisiting a `Feminine' Orient	121	(19)
Felicity A. Nussbaum
`Tied To Their Species By The Strongest Of All Relations': Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rewriting of Race as Sensibility	140	(18)
Moi Rickman
Hannah More and Conservative Feminism	158	(13)
Harriet Guest
Chawton House: Gathering Old Books for a New Library	171	(16)
Isobel Grundy
Index	187