Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England

Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England
Title Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England PDF eBook
Author Catherine Ingrassia
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 248
Release 1998-11-05
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780521630634

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The contemporaneous development of speculative investment and the novel in the early eighteenth century, and women's role in both.

A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture

A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture
Title A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture PDF eBook
Author Paula R. Backscheider
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 576
Release 2009-10-19
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1405192453

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A Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts. An up-to-date resource for the study of the eighteenth-century novel Furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral context Foregrounds those topics of most historical and political relevance to the twenty-first century Explores formative influences on the eighteenth-century novel, its engagement with the major issues and philosophies of the period, and its lasting legacy Covers both traditional themes, such as narrative authority and print culture, and cutting-edge topics, such as globalization, nationhood, technology, and science Considers both canonical and non-canonical literature

The Yard of Wit

The Yard of Wit
Title The Yard of Wit PDF eBook
Author Raymond Stephanson
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages 310
Release 2013-10-09
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0812203666

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Literary composition is more than an intellectual affair. Poetry has long been said to spring from the heart, while aspiring writers are frequently encouraged to write "from the gut." Still another formulation likens the poetic imagination to the pregnant womb, in spite of the fact that most poets historically have been male. Offering a rather different set of arguments about the forces that shape creativity, Raymond Stephanson examines how male writers of the Enlightenment imagined the origins, nature, and structures of their own creative impulses as residing in their virility. For Stephanson, the links between male writing, the social contexts of masculinity, and the male body—particularly the genitalia—played a significant role in the self-fashioning of several generations of male authors. Positioning sexuality as a volatile mechanism in the development of creative energy, The Yard of Wit explains why male writers associated their authorial work—both the internal site of creativity and its status in public—with their genitalia and reproductive and erotic acts, and how these gestures functioned in the new marketplace of letters. Using the figure and writings of Alexander Pope as a touchstone, Stephanson offers an inspired reading of an important historical convergence, a double commodification of male creativity and of masculinity as the sexualized male body. In considering how literary discourses about male creativity are linked to larger cultural formations, this elegant, enlightening book offers new insight into sex and gender, maleness and masculinity, and the intricate relationship between the male body and mind.

Women in Business, 1700-1850

Women in Business, 1700-1850
Title Women in Business, 1700-1850 PDF eBook
Author Nicola Jane Phillips
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Pages 326
Release 2006
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9781843831839

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A reappraisal of the business enterprises of women in the `long' eighteenth century, showing them to be more flourishing than previously thought.

A Spy on Eliza Haywood

A Spy on Eliza Haywood
Title A Spy on Eliza Haywood PDF eBook
Author Aleksondra Hultquist
Publisher Routledge
Pages 184
Release 2021-08-26
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1000425606

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Eliza Haywood was one of the most prolific English writers in the Age of the Enlightenment. Her career, from Love in Excess (1719) to her last completed project The Invisible Spy (1755) spanned the gamut of genres: novels, plays, advice manuals, periodicals, propaganda, satire, and translations. Haywood’s importance in the development of the novel is now well-known. A Spy on Eliza Haywood links this with her work in the other genres in which she published at least one volume a year throughout her life, demonstrating how she contributed substantially to making women’s writing a locus of debate that had to be taken seriously by contemporary readers, as well as now by current scholars of political, moral, and social enquiries into the eighteenth century. Haywood’s work is essential to the study of eighteenth-century literature and this collection of essays continues the growing scholarship on this most important of women writers.

Women and Their Money 1700-1950

Women and Their Money 1700-1950
Title Women and Their Money 1700-1950 PDF eBook
Author Anne Laurence
Publisher Routledge
Pages 411
Release 2008-11-20
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1134111339

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This book, the first of its kind, will be of interest across several disciplines including economics, economic history, business history, British history and women/gender history The fact that the essays reach beyond Britain and include work on Germany, Australia, Italy, Canada, Sweden and the West Indies will stimulate interest throughout (and even beyond) the English speaking world There is a growing interest in the study of women’s economic activity, which reflects the recognition that economics and economic/business history are not gender neutral subjects

Marriage, Property, and Women's Narratives

Marriage, Property, and Women's Narratives
Title Marriage, Property, and Women's Narratives PDF eBook
Author S. Livingston
Publisher Springer
Pages 378
Release 2012-04-23
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 113701086X

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An interdisciplinary approach to the study of women and property, combining literature, history, and economics. By looking at women's marriage narratives over a long period of time, the book reveals the deep discontent with the institution of property ownership as a unifying thread from the Middle Ages up through the twentieth-century.