Women and Literature in Britain, 1800-1900 |
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Editor:
| Shattock, Joanne |
ISBN: | 978-0-521-65055-7 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2001 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $156.95 |
Book Description:
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These new essays by leading scholars explore nineteenth-century women's writing across a spectrum of genres. The book's focus is on women's role in and access to literary culture in the broadest sense, as consumers and interpreters as well as practitioners of that culture. Individual chapters consider women as journalists, editors, translators, scholars, actresses, playwrights, autobiographers, biographers, writers for children and religious writers as well as novelists and poets. A...
More DescriptionThese new essays by leading scholars explore nineteenth-century women's writing across a spectrum of genres. The book's focus is on women's role in and access to literary culture in the broadest sense, as consumers and interpreters as well as practitioners of that culture. Individual chapters consider women as journalists, editors, translators, scholars, actresses, playwrights, autobiographers, biographers, writers for children and religious writers as well as novelists and poets. A unique chronology offers a woman-centred perspective on literary and historical events and there is a guide to further reading.