Screen LibraryBritish women's life writing, 1760-1840 friendship, community, and collaboration /
British Women's Life Writing, 1760-1840 brings together for the first time a wide range of print and manuscript sources to demonstrate women's innovative approach to self-representation. It examines canonical writers, such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson, and Helen Maria Williams, am...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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British Women's Life Writing, 1760-1840 brings together for the first time a wide range of print and manuscript sources to demonstrate women's innovative approach to self-representation. It examines canonical writers, such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson, and Helen Maria Williams, amongst others. 'This book productively deploys the more capacious conceptual model of life-writing to take account of the diverse ways in which women narrated their lives, through print and manuscript, emphasising themes of community, textual sociability and generational interaction. There is no book that applies the methodology of 'life- writing studies' to 18th and 19th century women in this way. The book has a number of interdisciplinary strengths, appealing to scholars in history, gender studies, literary studies, French Revolution studies, celebrity studies and life writing studies.' - Elizabeth Eger, |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9781137274212, 2014. |
| Carrier Form: | 280 p. |
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9781137274229 : 1137274220 : |
| CLC: | I561.076 |
| Contents: | Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: 'THEIR LIVES SPOKE MORE THAN VOLUMES' THE LIFE WRITING OF EARLY METHODIST WOMEN 1. The Life Writing of Early Methodist Women 2. 'All the Family in Heaven and Earth are Married': Mary Fletcher and the Family of Methodism 3. 'With Magdalene at the Masters Feet': Testimony and Transcription in the Life of Sarah Ryan 4. 'The Staff of My Old Age': Memorialising Sarah Lawrence 5. 'They Live Yea They Live Forever': Mary Tooth's Methodist History PART II: 'SIGNED WITH HER OWN HAND' THE LIFE WRITING OF LATE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AND REGENCY COURTESANS 6. The Life Wr |