Women and Literature in Britain, 1700 1800 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521586801)

Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800 is unique in providing an authoritative, up-to-date overview of eighteenth-century women's writing and its contexts. The contributors are well-known feminist literary critics, cultural historians and historians of publishing. They discuss the construction of women, and women's writing across a wide range of genres, including essays on ideas of femininity, women and race, changing family structures, women and the law, and women as publishers and as readers. This book will be an invaluable resource both for students and experts in the field.

Author: Vivien Jones
ISBN-10: 0521586801
ISBN-13: 9780521586801
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/09/2000
Pages: 348
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.03w x 0.72d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2000 pg. 131