This period witnessed the first full flowering of women's writing in Britain. This illuminating volume features leading scholars who draw upon the last 25 years of scholarship and textual recovery to demonstrate the literary and cultural significance of women in the period, discussing writers such as Austen, Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley.

'...this volume is essential reading for scholars working in the field, and a superb introduction for those new to it.' - Benjamin Dabby, Victoriographies

'...this important collection reflects the great diversity and ingenuity of women's literary contributions in this period, their readiness to ask 'big questions' and the ideational connections which they themselves generated in the intellectual networks in which they worked.' - Christina Davidson, Women: A Cultural Review

Autorentext
Jennie Batchelor, Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature, University of Kent, UK Stephen C. Behrendt, George Holmes Distinguished University Professor of English, University of Nebraska, USA Betsy Bolton, Professor of English Literature, Swarthmore College, USA Deirdre Coleman, Robert Wallace Chair of English, University of Melbourne, Australia Stuart Curran, Vartan Gregorian Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, USA Kate Davies, Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Newcastle University, UK Harriet Guest, Professor in the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies and the Department of English and Related Literature, University of York, UK Donna Landry, Professor of English and American Literature, University of Kent, UK Harriet Kramer Linkin, Professor of English Literature, New Mexico State University, USA Michelle Levy, Associate Professor in the Department of English, Simon Fraser University, Canada Olivia Murphy, DPhil candidate, Worcester College, Oxford University UK Sarah Prescott, Senior Lecturer in English, Department of English and Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University, UK Diego Saglia, Associate, Professor of English Literature, University of Parma, Italy Betty A. Schellenburg, Professor of English, Simon Fraser University, Canada Katherine Turner, Associate Professor of English, Mary Baldwin College, USA

Inhalt
List of Figures Author Preface Series Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Chronology Introduction: Defining 'Women's Writing'; or, Writing 'The History'; J.M.Labbe PART I: 1750-1830: OVERVIEWS Women and Print Culture, 1750-1830; M.Levy Women's Travel Writing, 1750-1830; K.Turner PART II: 1750-1800: REVOLUTIONS IN FEMALE WRITING Bluestocking Women and the Negotiations of Oral, Manuscript and Print Cultures; B.A.Schellenberg '[T]o strike a little out of a road already so much beaten': Gender, Genre and the Mid-Century Novel; J.Batchelor Anglophone Welsh Women's Poetry 1750-1784: Jane Cave and Anne Penny; S.Prescott The Poem That Ate America: Helen Maria Williams' Ode on the Peace (1783); K.Davies Picturing Benevolence Against the Commercial Cry, 1750-1798: or, Sarah Fielding and the Secret Causes of Romanticism; D.Landry Women Writers and Abolition; D . Coleman Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft, and the Romance of Real Life; S.Curran Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, and the First Year of War with France; H.Guest PART III: 1800-1830: WORLDS OF WRITING The Porter Sisters, Women's Writing, and Historical Fiction; D.Looser Joanna Baillie's Emblematic Theatre; B.Bolton National Internationalism: Women's Writings and European Literature, 1800-1830; D.Saglia Jane Austen's Critical Response to Women's Writing: 'a good spot for fault-finding'; O.Murphy Mary Tighe and the Coterie of British Women Poets in Psyche; H.K.Linkin Influence, Anxiety, and Erasure in Women's Writing: Romantic Becomes Victorian; S.C. Behrendt Bibliography Index