Download e-book for iPad: Women, Gender, and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century by Temma Berg,Sonia Kane

By Temma Berg,Sonia Kane

This edited assortment, a tribute to the past due famous eighteenth-century pupil Betty Rizzo, testifies to her impression as a researcher, author, instructor, and mentor. The essays, written via various confirmed and more youthful eighteenth-century experts, extend at the issues very important to Rizzo: the significance of the archive, the contributions of girls writers to the canon of eighteenth-century literature and to an rising print tradition, the occasionally fraught kin in the eighteenth-century relatives, the connection among lifestyles and literature, and, ultimately, the position of woman companionship in women’s lives. Divided into 3 sections, “Living within the Eighteenth-Century Novel,” “Living within the Eighteenth-Century World,” and “Afterlives,” the fourteen essays that shape the physique of the gathering deal with such themes as epistolarity, fraternal family in novels and in households, ladies and shuttle in Jane Austen’s novels, the pleasures and demanding situations of looking through information to appreciate the complicated entanglements of eighteenth-century households, the altering reception of Alexander Pope’s poetry, and intersections between race, classification, gender, and sexuality in a recognized early-nineteenth-century Scottish libel case. the ultimate essay of the fourteen connects the archetypal eighteenth-century determine of the seduced and deserted girl to Sophie Calle’s 2007 Venice Biennale exhibition entitled Take Care of your self, which the writer reads as a right away descendant of the eighteenth-century letter novel. The ebook is framed by way of an creation that situates the ebook as a part of the continued redefinition of the archive of eighteenth-century literature and an afterword that offers a private account of Rizzo’s occupation and her indelible legacy as pal, mentor, version. The participants use numerous tools of their scholarship, yet a typical strand is archival study and shut interpreting inflected by way of feminist research. The ebook will entice scholars and students of eighteenth-century British literature and tradition and to these drawn to women’s writing and women’s relationships within the eighteenth century—and today—and in feminist literary historical past. The participants to the quantity perform the type of scholarship Rizzo was once recognized for—painstaking archival learn and a focus to the nuances of relationships between eighteenth-century girls (and men)—and in so doing shed new mild on a couple of conventional and not-so-familiar eighteenth-century texts.

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