Jennie Batchelor

Women's work

Labour, gender, authorship, 1750-1830

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Women's work challenges influential accounts about gender and the novel by revealing the complex ways in which labour (as material reality and philosophical concept) shaped the lives and writings of a number of women authors working in the second half of the long eighteenth century

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 332g
• ISBN-13: 9780719095580
• ISBN-10: 0719095581
• Artikelnr.: 40922221

Autorenporträt

Jennie Batchelor is Reader in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of Kent

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The 'gift' of work: labour, narrative and community in the
novels of Sarah Scott 2. Somebody's story: Charlotte Smith and the work of
writing 3. The 'business' of a woman's life and the making of the Female
Philosopher: the works of Mary Wollstonecraft 4. Women writers, the popular
press and the Literary Fund, 1790-1830 Coda: reading labour and writing
women's literary history Bibliography Index