Masters of the Marketplace is the first book to address the importance of the 1750s in literary history and to consider the active role that women novelists played in the formation of the novel. It highlights how women novelists of the 1750s controlled their literary circumstances. These authors were particularly agile at responding to the changing literary marketplace, the emergent domestic ideal, varied reader responses, shifting notions of genre, and new developments in epistemology. Reading these essays side by side brings to light the fact that women novelists of the 1750s engaged in a…mehr
Masters of the Marketplace is the first book to address the importance of the 1750s in literary history and to consider the active role that women novelists played in the formation of the novel. It highlights how women novelists of the 1750s controlled their literary circumstances. These authors were particularly agile at responding to the changing literary marketplace, the emergent domestic ideal, varied reader responses, shifting notions of genre, and new developments in epistemology. Reading these essays side by side brings to light the fact that women novelists of the 1750s engaged in a critical renovation of the novel as a genre and reclaimed it for a proto-feminist project, challenging, educating, and joining their readers.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Susan Carlile is associate professor of English at California State University, Long Beach.
Inhaltsangabe
Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part I: Challenging the Status Quo Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Marriage in Haywood; or, Amatory Reading Rewarded Chapter 4 Chapter 2: The Unprotected Woman in Eliza Haywood's The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy Chapter 5 Chapter 3: Lives, Letters, and Tales in Sarah Scott's Journey Through Every Stage of Life Part 6 Part II: Educations in Epistemology Chapter 7 Chapter 4: Sarah Fielding's Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia and the British Historical Novel Chapter 8 Chapter 5: Arabella Unbound: Wit, Judgment, and the Cure of Lennox's Female Quixote Chapter 9 Chapter 6: Henrietta on Page and Stage Part 10 Part III: Creating Community Chapter 11 Chapter 7: The "latent seeds of coquetry": Amatory Fiction and the 1750s Novel Chapter 12 Chapter 8: "The Sole Business of Ladies in Romances": Sharing Histories in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote Chapter 13 Chapter 9: "to such as are willing to understand": Considering Fielding's Community of Imagined Readers Part 14 Part IV: Performing in the Literary Marketplace Chapter 15 Chapter 10: The Afterlife and Strange Surprising Adventures of Haywood's Amatories (with Thoughts on Betsy Thoughtless) Chapter 16 Chapter 11: Reading Female Readers: The Female Quixote and Female Quixotism Chapter 17 Chapter 12: Putting Woemn in Their Place: Locating Women Novelists in the 1750s
Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part I: Challenging the Status Quo Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Marriage in Haywood; or, Amatory Reading Rewarded Chapter 4 Chapter 2: The Unprotected Woman in Eliza Haywood's The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy Chapter 5 Chapter 3: Lives, Letters, and Tales in Sarah Scott's Journey Through Every Stage of Life Part 6 Part II: Educations in Epistemology Chapter 7 Chapter 4: Sarah Fielding's Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia and the British Historical Novel Chapter 8 Chapter 5: Arabella Unbound: Wit, Judgment, and the Cure of Lennox's Female Quixote Chapter 9 Chapter 6: Henrietta on Page and Stage Part 10 Part III: Creating Community Chapter 11 Chapter 7: The "latent seeds of coquetry": Amatory Fiction and the 1750s Novel Chapter 12 Chapter 8: "The Sole Business of Ladies in Romances": Sharing Histories in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote Chapter 13 Chapter 9: "to such as are willing to understand": Considering Fielding's Community of Imagined Readers Part 14 Part IV: Performing in the Literary Marketplace Chapter 15 Chapter 10: The Afterlife and Strange Surprising Adventures of Haywood's Amatories (with Thoughts on Betsy Thoughtless) Chapter 16 Chapter 11: Reading Female Readers: The Female Quixote and Female Quixotism Chapter 17 Chapter 12: Putting Woemn in Their Place: Locating Women Novelists in the 1750s
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