Everyday revolutions : eighteenth-century women transforming public and private /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Boyd, Diane E., 1971-, Kvande, Marta, 1972-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2008]
Subjects:	English literature > 18th century > History and criticism. English literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Women authors, English > 18th century > Political and social views. Women in literature. Women > Political activity. Women in public life. Women > History > 18th century. Feminism > History > 18th century. Women > Social conditions > 18th century.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: reading women, reading public and private / Diane E. Boyd and Marta Kvande
Hanging on and hanging in : women's struggle to participate in public sphere debate / Paula R. Backscheider
"The constant action of our lab'ring hands" : Mary Collier's demystification of work and womanhood in the early eighteenth century / Aruna Krishnamurthy
Frances Brooke's environmental vandalism : carving sexual resistance on trees in The history of Emily Montague / Emily Smith
A space between : prostitutes negotiating the public and the private in memoir novels of eighteenth-century France / Alistaire Tallent
"I had rather be obscure. but I dare not" : women and methodism in the eighteenth century / Brett C. McInelly
Frances Burney and Frances Sheridan : epistolary fiction and the public sphere / Marta Kvande
Unspoken contracts : the carriage and women's work in Belinda / Diane E. Boyd
"A walking ought": displacement and the public sphere in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park / Shea Stuart
Order in the family court : maternal disruption in Chancery, Roxana, and Maria / Cheryl L. Nixon.