Betty A. Schellenberg

The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

The Professionalisation of Women Writers in Eighteenth Century Britain is a full study of a group of women who were actively and ambitiously engaged in a range of innovative publications at the height of the eighteenth century. Using personal correspondence, records of contemporary reception, research into contemporary print culture and sociological models of professionalisation, Betty A. Schellenberg challenges oversimplified assumptions of women's cultural role in the period, focusing on those women who have been most obscured by literary history, including Frances Sheridan, Frances Brooke, Sarah Fielding and Charlotte Lennox.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9780521850605
• ISBN-10: 0521850606
• Artikelnr.: 14690077

Autorenporträt

Betty A. Schellenberg is Associate Professor of English at Simon Fraser University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; Note on citations; Introduction: 'building on public approbation'; 1. Frances Sheridan, John Home, and public virtue; 2. The politicised pastoral of Frances Brooke; 3. Sarah Scott, historian, in the republic of letters; 4. The (female) literary careers of Sarah Fielding and Charlotte Lennox; 5. Harmless mediocrity: Edward Kimber and the Minifie sisters; 6. From propensity to profession in the early career of Frances Burney; 7. Women writers and 'the Great Forgetting'; Coda; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Acknowledgements
Note on citations
Introduction: 'building on public approbation'
1. Frances Sheridan, John Home, and public virtue
2. The politicised pastoral of Frances Brooke
3. Sarah Scott, historian, in the republic of letters
4. The (female) literary careers of Sarah Fielding and Charlotte Lennox
5. Harmless mediocrity: Edward Kimber and the Minifie sisters
6. From propensity to profession in the early career of Frances Burney
7. Women writers and 'the Great Forgetting'
Coda
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

Rezensionen

'No less striking than the subtlety and learning that distinguish this study is the energy of Schellenberg's prose. This fine new book will establish Schellenberg as a major voice in the field.' Thomas Keymer, University of Oxford