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Drawing on three decades of feminist scholarship bent on rediscovering lost and abandoned women writers Susan Staves provides a comprehensive history of women s writing in Britain from the Restoration to the French Revolution. This major work of criticism also offers fresh insights about women s writing in all literary forms not only fiction but also poetry drama memoir autobiography biography history essay translation and the familiar letter. Authors celebrated in their own time and who have been neglected and those who have been revalued and studied are given equal attention. The book s organisation by chronology and its attention to history challenge the way we periodise literary history. Each chapter includes a list of key works written in the period covered as well as a narrative and critical assessment of the works. This magisterial work includes a comprehensive bibliography and list of prevalent editions of the authors discussed.
Editions of A Literary History of Women's Writing in Britain, 1660-1789
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780521858656
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780521130516
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Drawing on three decades of feminist scholarship bent on rediscovering lost and abandoned women writers Susan Staves provides a comprehensive history of women s writing in Britain from the Restoration to the French Revolution. This major work of criticism also offers fresh insights about women s writing in all literary forms not only fiction but also poetry drama memoir autobiography biography history essay translation and the familiar letter. Authors celebrated in their own time and who have been neglected and those who have been revalued and studied are given equal attention. The book s organisation by chronology and its attention to history challenge the way we periodise literary history. Each chapter includes a list of key works written in the period covered as well as a narrative and critical assessment of the works. This magisterial work includes a comprehensive bibliography and list of prevalent editions of the authors discussed.
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Drawing on three decades of feminist scholarship bent on rediscovering lost and abandoned women writers Susan Staves provides a comprehensive history of women s writing in Britain from the Restoration to the French Revolution. This major work of criticism also offers fresh insights about women s writing in all literary forms not only fiction but also poetry drama memoir autobiography biography history essay translation and the familiar letter. Authors celebrated in their own time and who have been neglected and those who have been revalued and studied are given equal attention. The book s organisation by chronology and its attention to history challenge the way we periodise literary history. Each chapter includes a list of key works written in the period covered as well as a narrative and critical assessment of the works. This magisterial work includes a comprehensive bibliography and list of prevalent editions of the authors discussed.
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Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Literature: history and criticism > Literary studies: general
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Susan Staves
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A Literary History of Women's Writing in Britain, 1660-1789 is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780521858656) and paperback(ISBN 9780521130516)