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Revising women : eighteenth-century "women's fiction" and social engagement / edited by Paula R. Backscheider.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.Description: xiii, 273 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0801862361 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823/.509355 21
  • 823.509355 21
Contents:
1. The Novel's Gendered Space / Paula R. Backscheider -- 2. The Rise of Gender as Political Category / Paula R. Backscheider -- 3. Renegotiating the Gothic / Betty Rizzo -- 4. My Art Belongs to Daddy? Thomas Day, Maria Edgeworth, and the Pre-Texts of Belinda: Women Writers and Patriarchal Authority / Mitzi Myers -- 5. Jane Austen and the Culture of Circulating Libraries: The Construction of Female Literacy / Barbara M. Benedict.
Review: "Revising Women is a collection of essays by a distinguished group of feminist critics. Each essay is a contribution to the history of the English novel and demonstrates the "reactivation" of texts, a kind of criticism that produces rich contextualization in order to reveal the story beneath - not only of the individual writer but also of a text that is a cultural production with the potential to reveal why we and our society are as we are. Developing ways of using history in relation to literature, each essay takes up large historical events and issues, and interprets in fine detail what individuals do with them." "The essays bring together a number of issues often discussed separately. Among these are the constructing power of socio-historical forces and of the individual creating writer and the works of male and female authors."--BOOK JACKET.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library 823.509355 REV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 63970

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-264) and index.

1. The Novel's Gendered Space / Paula R. Backscheider -- 2. The Rise of Gender as Political Category / Paula R. Backscheider -- 3. Renegotiating the Gothic / Betty Rizzo -- 4. My Art Belongs to Daddy? Thomas Day, Maria Edgeworth, and the Pre-Texts of Belinda: Women Writers and Patriarchal Authority / Mitzi Myers -- 5. Jane Austen and the Culture of Circulating Libraries: The Construction of Female Literacy / Barbara M. Benedict.

"Revising Women is a collection of essays by a distinguished group of feminist critics. Each essay is a contribution to the history of the English novel and demonstrates the "reactivation" of texts, a kind of criticism that produces rich contextualization in order to reveal the story beneath - not only of the individual writer but also of a text that is a cultural production with the potential to reveal why we and our society are as we are. Developing ways of using history in relation to literature, each essay takes up large historical events and issues, and interprets in fine detail what individuals do with them." "The essays bring together a number of issues often discussed separately. Among these are the constructing power of socio-historical forces and of the individual creating writer and the works of male and female authors."--BOOK JACKET.

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