British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (992 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801864488 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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An Excellent Study of Women and the Writing of History J. Garlen Devoney Looser's study not only breaks new ground in eighteenth-century studies of gender and genre, but it does so with great clarity, style, and grace. Looser's work is well researched and engagingly written, with chapters that focus in turn on several British women writers from the "long eighteenth century," including Lucy Hutchinson, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Jane Austen, Catha
She is the editor of Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism and coeditor (with E. Ann Kaplan) of Generations: Academic Feminists in Dialogue.. Devoney Looser is an associate professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia
The first book to look at British women writers and their contributions to historiography during the long eighteenth century, British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820, asks why, rather than writing history that included their own sex, some women of this period chose to write the same kind of history as men--one that marginalized or excluded women altogether. Until recently, history writing has been understood as a male enclave from which women were restricted, particularly prior to the nineteenth century. But as Devoney Looser demonstrates, although British women's historically informed writings were not necessarily feminist or even female-focused, they were intimately involved in debates over and conversations about the genre of history.Looser investigates the careers of Lucy Hutchinson, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Charlotte Lennox, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Austen and sh
"Essential to feminist scholarship in its objective and individualized approach to these authors." -- Jessica Harvey, The East-Central Intelligencer"Devoney Looser's book is important. Zook, H-Albion, H-Net Reviews. It establishes the historical consciousness at the core of the achievements of a group of notable women writers over a period of a century and a half This book achieves its goal of bringing to our attention a series of meritorious writers and texts that exemplify the important place occupied by women in the intellectual life of eighteenth-century England." -- Everet