Women's writing, 1660-1830

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Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

2016

266 Pages

ISBN 978-1-137-54381-3

Women's writing, 1660-1830

feminisms and futures

Edited by

Jennie Batchelor, Gillian Dow

This book is about mapping the future of eighteenth-century women’s writing and feminist literary history, in an academic culture that is not shy of declaring their obsolescence. It asks: what can or should unite us as scholars devoted to the recovery and study of women’s literary history in an era of big data, on the one hand, and ever more narrowly defined specialization, on the other? Leading scholars from the UK and US answer this question in thought-provoking, cross-disciplinary and oftenpolemical essays. Contributors attend to the achievements of eighteenth-century women writers and the scholars who have devoted their lives to them, and map new directions for the advancement of research in the area. They collectively argue that eighteenth-century women’s literary history has a future, and that feminism was, and always should be, at its heart.

Publication details

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-54382-0

Full citation:

Batchelor, J. , Dow, G. (eds) (2016). Women's writing, 1660-1830: feminisms and futures, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

Table of Contents

Preface

Grundy Isobel

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