Economic Imperatives for Women's Writing in Early Modern Europe

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-38299-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Women Writers in History

Economic Imperatives for Women’s Writing in Early Modern Europe delves into the early modern history of women’s authorship and literary production in Europe taking a material turn. The case studies included in the volume represent women writers from various European countries and comparatively reflect the nuances of their participation in a burgeoning commercial market for authors while profiting as much from patronage. From self-representation as professional writers to literary reception, the challenges of reputation, financial hardships, and relationships with editors and colleagues, the essays in this collection show from different theoretical standpoints and linguistic areas that gender biases played a far less limiting role in women’s literary writing than is commonly assumed, while they determined the relationship between moneymaking, self-representation, and publishing strategies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Font Paz, Carme

Geerdink, Nina

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: Women, Professionalisation, and Patronage
Carme Font Paz and Nina Geerdink
2 Women Authors’ Reputation and Its Relationship to Money Earned: Some Early French Writers as Examples
Suzan van Dijk
3 Words for Sale: Early Modern Spanish Women’s Literary Economy
Nieves Baranda
4 Fighting for Her Profession: Dorothe Engelbretsdatter’s Discourse of Self-Defence
Marie Nedregotten Sørbø
5 Writing for Patronage or Patronage for Writing? Two Case Studies in Seventeenth-Century and Post-Restoration Women’s Poetry in Britain
Carme Font Paz
6 Possibilities of Patronage: The Dutch Poet Elisabeth Hoofman and Her German Patrons
Nina Geerdink
7 Between Patronage and Professional Writing. The Situation of Eighteenth Century Women of Letters in Venice: The Example of Luisa Bergalli Gozzi
Rotraud von Kulessa
8 From Queen’s Librarian to Voice of the Neapolitan Republic: Eleonora de Fonseca Pimentel
Irene Zanini-Cordi
9 “[S]ome employment in the translating Way”: Economic Imperatives in Charlotte Lennox’s Career as a Translator
Marianna D’Ezio
10 Beating the Odds: Sophie Albrecht (1756–1840), a Successful Woman Writer and Publisher in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Berit C.R. Royer
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nina Geerdink, Ph.D. (1983), Utrecht University, is Assistant Professor of Early Modern Dutch Literature at that university. She is a specialist in the seventeenth century and has published on women’s writing, social poetry and authorship.

Carme Font Paz, Ph.D. (1972), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, is Lecturer of English Literature at that university, and Research Associate at the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. She is a specialist in the seventeenth century and has published on women’s prophetic writing, poetry and intellectual history.