The History of British Women's Writing, 1750-1830: Volume Five

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 10
Series Preface......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Notes on the Contributors......Page 15
Chronology......Page 18
Introduction: Defining ‘Women\'s Writing\'; or, Writing ‘The History\'......Page 32
Part I: 1750–1830: Overviews......Page 58
1 Women and Print Culture, 1750–1830......Page 60
2 Women\'s Travel Writing, 1750–1830......Page 78
Part II: 1750–1800: Revolutions in Female Writing......Page 92
3 Bluestocking Women and the Negotiation of Oral, Manuscript, and Print Cultures......Page 94
4 \'[T]o strike a little out of a road already so much beaten\': Gender, Genre, and the Mid-Century Novel......Page 115
5 Anglophone Welsh Women\'s Poetry 1750–84: Jane Cave and Anne Penny......Page 133
6 The Poem that Ate America: Helen Maria Williams\'s Ode on the Peace (1783)......Page 156
7 Picturing Benevolence against the Commercial Cry, 1750–98: Or, Sarah Fielding and the Secret Causes of Romanticism......Page 181
8 Women Writers and Abolition......Page 203
9 Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft, and the Romance of Real Life......Page 225
10 Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson and the First Year of the War with France......Page 238
Part III: 1800–1830: Worlds of Writing......Page 262
11 The Porter Sisters, Women\'s Writing, and Historical Fiction......Page 264
12 Joanna Baillie\'s Emblematic Theatre......Page 285
13 National Internationalism: Women\'s Writing and European Literature, 1800–30......Page 299
14 Jane Austen\'s Critical Response to Women\'s Writing: \'a good spot for fault-finding\'......Page 319
15 Mary Tighe and the Coterie of Women Poets in Psyche......Page 332
16 Influence, Anxiety, and Erasure in Women\'s Writing: Romantic becomes Victorian......Page 352
Select Bibliography......Page 372
Index......Page 383