Revamping Literary History
Both books under review here are about women writers of the eighteenth century: Susan Carlile's edited collection, Masters of the Marketplace, focuses on four from the 1750s—Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Lennox, Sarah Scott, and Sarah Fielding—and Jennie Batchelor, in her Women's Work: Labour,...
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| description | Both books under review here are about women writers of the eighteenth century: Susan Carlile's edited collection, Masters of the Marketplace, focuses on four from the 1750s—Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Lennox, Sarah Scott, and Sarah Fielding—and Jennie Batchelor, in her Women's Work: Labour, Gender, Authorship, 1750-1830 compares the women authors of this decade to those later in the century. Carlile's collection insists on how professionally successful these writers women were, and how influential in determining the direction of the novel. Batchelor investigates how women thought about their literary labors and how these perceptions evolved over the course of the century. Both books seek to augment traditionally male-centered literary history and to provide new ways of understanding the contribution of gender to the construction of the novel. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/894812023-08-08T02:06:48Z Revamping Literary History Perry, Ruth Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Literature Section Perry, Ruth Both books under review here are about women writers of the eighteenth century: Susan Carlile's edited collection, Masters of the Marketplace, focuses on four from the 1750s—Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Lennox, Sarah Scott, and Sarah Fielding—and Jennie Batchelor, in her Women's Work: Labour, Gender, Authorship, 1750-1830 compares the women authors of this decade to those later in the century. Carlile's collection insists on how professionally successful these writers women were, and how influential in determining the direction of the novel. Batchelor investigates how women thought about their literary labors and how these perceptions evolved over the course of the century. Both books seek to augment traditionally male-centered literary history and to provide new ways of understanding the contribution of gender to the construction of the novel. 2014-09-12T18:52:50Z 2014-09-12T18:52:50Z 2012 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/BookReview 1086-315X 0013-2586 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/89481 Perry, Ruth. “Revamping Literary History.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 45, no. 4 (2012): 609–613. © 2012 ASECS https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6298-3896 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2012.0045 Eighteenth-Century Studies Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf Muse - Johns Hopkins University Press Johns Hopkins University Press |
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