Anthony Pollock

Gender and the Fictions of the Public Sphere, 1690-1755 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Gender and the Fictions of the Public Sphere, 1690-1755, complicates our understanding of eighteenth-century English print culture by studying the journalistic work of women writers who have long been overlooked by scholars, and by re-interpreting texts by canonical male authors in the period as responses to these early feminist models of cultural authority.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135855901
• Artikelnr.: 38250065

Autorenporträt

Anthony Pollock is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he specializes in eighteenth-century European literature and gender studies. A former Mellon Fellow at the Newberry Library, Pollock's work has been placed in many journals, including ELH, Philological Quarterly, and The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments. Introduction. Part I: Models and Countermodels of English Public Discourse
1690-1714. 1. Learned Oracles
Muck-Spattered Spies
and Academic Activists: The Politics of English Publicness from Dunton to Addison. 2. Neutering Addison and Steele: Aesthetic Failure and the Spectatorial Public Sphere. 3. Gender
Ridicule
and the Satire of Liberal Reform: 'Manley
' Mandeville and the Female Tatler. Part II: Tory Feminism and the Gendered Reader
Astell to Haywood. 4. Astell
Whig Publicness
and the Problem of Female Specularity. 5. Voyeurism
Feminist Impartiality
and Cultural Authority: Haywood and the Addisonian Periodical. Notes. Bibliography. Index.