S. Prescott

Women, Authorship and Literary Culture, 1690-1740

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Produktbeschreibung

Sarah Prescott discusses the careers of a number of key women writers of the period from 1690 to 1740, exploring the role played by geographical location, literary circles, patronage, the literary marketplace, and subscription publication in shaping patterns of female authorship. The volume also provides a wealth of detail about the circumstances which affected the careers of individual women as well as investigating the marketing, reception, and self-representation of women writers in general.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4039-0323-5
• 2003
• Seitenzahl: 237
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 138mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 398g
• ISBN-13: 9781403903235
• ISBN-10: 1403903239
• Artikelnr.: 43598539

Autorenporträt

SARAH PRESCOTT is a Lecturer in English at the University of Wales. She is the author of several articles on early eighteenth-century women's writing and has co-edited a collection of essays, Women and Poetry, 1660-1750, also available from Palgrave Macmillan.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Relocating Women's Literary History PART I: WOMEN AND AUTHORSHIP Authorship for Women: Careers and Contexts Negotiating Authorship: Self-Representations PART II: AUTHORSHIP AND ECONOMICS Marketing the Woman Writer: Commercial Strategies Making a Living: Booksellers, Patronage, and Subscription PART III: THE LITERARY CAREER OF ELIZABETH SINGER ROWE Authorship, Gender, and Whig Poetics Provincial Networks, Dissenting Connections, and Noble Friends Bibliography Index