Batchelor Women's work

Labour, gender, authorship, 1750–1830
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-84779-267-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 268 Seiten

Women’s Work challenges influential accounts about gender and the novel by revealing the complex ways in which labour (as material reality and philosophical concept) shaped the lives and writings of a number of women authors working in the second half of the long eighteenth century

Autoren/Hrsg.

Batchelor, Jennie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The ‘gift’ of work: labour, narrative and community in the novels of
Sarah Scott
2. Somebody’s story: Charlotte Smith and the Work of Writing
3. The ‘business’ of a woman’s life and the making of the Female
Philosopher: the works of Mary Wollstonecraft
4. Women writers, the popular press and the Literary Fund, 1790-1830
Coda: reading labour and writing women’s literary history
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Batchelor Jennie:
Jennie Batchelor is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent.Jennie Batchelor is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent.