Author: William DuffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Letters on the Intellectual and Moral Character of Women
Author: William DuffLetters on the Intellectual and Moral Character of Women
Author: William DuffThe Monthly Repertory of English Literature, ... Or an Impartial Criticism of All the Books Relative to Literature, Arts, Sciences Etc. Forming a Valuable Selection from the ... English Reviews and Magazines. Galignani's Magazine and Paris Monthly Review, (etc.) Paris 1823-25
Author: The Monthly Repertory of English Literature
Author: The Sign of Angellica
Author: Janet ToddPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231071352
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Describes the entry of women into literature as a profession. Looks at over a century of women's writings, from Behn to mary Wollstonecraft.
Monthly Repertory of English Literature
Author: The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review
Author: Women and Gift Exchange in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Author: Linda ZionkowskiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317240480
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This book analyzes why the most influential novelists of the long eighteenth century centered their narratives on the theory and practice of gift exchange. Throughout this period, fundamental shifts in economic theories regarding the sources of individual and national wealth along with transformations in the practices of personal and institutional charity profoundly altered cultural understandings of the gift's rationale, purpose, and function. Drawing on materials such as sermons, conduct books, works of political philosophy, and tracts on social reform, Zionkowski challenges the idea that capitalist discourse was the dominant influence on the development of prose fiction. Instead, by shifting attention to the gift system as it was imagined and enacted in the formative years of the novel, the volume offers an innovative understanding of how the economy of obligation shaped writers' portrayals of class and gender identity, property, and community. Through theoretically-informed readings of Richardson's Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison, Burney's Cecilia and The Wanderer, and Austen's Mansfield Park and Emma, the book foregrounds the issues of donation, reciprocity, indebtedness, and gratitude as it investigates the conflicts between the market and moral economies and analyzes women's position at the center of these conflicts. As this study reveals, the exchanges that eighteenth-century fiction prescribed for women confirm the continuing power and importance of gift transactions in the midst of an increasingly commercial culture. The volume will be essential reading for scholars of the eighteenth-century novel, economic literary criticism, women and gender studies, and book history.
Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature
Author: Isobel ArmstrongPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136315411
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Reissuing seminal works originally published between 1979 and 1994, Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature offers a selection of scholarship from a time of great change in feminist studies and literary studies. Topics cover all aspects of women's literature, gender and feminism through literary criticism and the work of women literary theorists.
Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Author: Barbara TaylorPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521004176
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
In the two centuries since Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), she has become an icon of modern feminism: a stature that has paradoxically obscured her real historic significance. In the most in-depth study to date of Wollstonecraft s thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain s radical Enlightenment. Wollstonecraft s feminist aspirations, Taylor shows, were part of a revolutionary programme for universal equality and moral perfection that reached its zenith during the political upheavals of the 1790s but had its roots in the radical-Protestant Enlightenment. Drawing on all of Wollstonecraft s works, and locating them in a vividly detailed account of her intellectual world and troubled personal history, Taylor provides a compelling portrait of this fascinating and profoundly influential thinker.