Women and literature in Britain, 1700-1800 /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Jones, Vivien, 1952-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Subjects:	English literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century. English literature > 18th century > History and criticism. Great Britain > Intellectual life > 18th century. Women intellectuals > Great Britain.

Table of Contents:

Writings on education and conduct: arguments for female improvement / Kathryn Sutherland
Eighteenth-century femininity: "a supposed sexual character" / Harriet Guest
Women and race: "a difference of complexion" / Felicity A. Nussbaum
Women's status as legal and civic subjects: "a worse condition than slavery itself" / Gillian Skinner
Women in families: the great disinheritance / Ruth Perry
Women and the business of print / Paula McDowell
Women readers: a case study / Jon Fergus
(Re)discovering women's texts / Isobel Grundy
Women and the rise of the novel: sexual prescripts / Ros Ballaster
Women poets of the eighteenth century / Margaret Anne Doody
Women and the theatre / Angela J. Smallwood
Women and popular culture: gender, cultural dynamics, and popular prints / Diane Dugaw
Varieties of women's writing / Clare Brant.