Women, Popular Culture, and the Eighteenth Century

Contents
List of Illustrations
Editor’s Preface
Part I: Performance, Fashion, and the Politics of the Popular
	1 Historicizing the Popular and the Feminine: The Rape of the Lock and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies • Tiffany Potter
	2 ‘The Assemblage of every female Folly’: Lavinia Fenton, Kitty Clive, and the Genesis of Ballad Opera • Berta Joncus
	3 Politics and Gender in a Tale of Two Plays • Paula Backscheider
	4 Celebrity Status: The Eighteenth-Century Actress as Fashion Icon • Jessica Munns
	5 Fanning the Flames: Women, Fashion, and Politics • Elaine Chalus
Part II: Women, Reading, and Writing
	6 The Culinary Art of Eighteenth-Century Women Cookbook Authors • Robert James Merrett
	7 Women and Letters • Isobel Grundy
	8 Writing Bodies in Popular Culture: Eliza Haywood and Love in Excess • Holly Luhning
	9 Women Reading and Writing for The Rambler • Peter Sabor
	10 ‘The Most Dangerous Talent’: Riddles as Feminine Pastime • Mary Chadwick
	11 Comic Prints, the Picturesque, and Fashion: Seeing and Being Seen in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey • Timothy Erwin
Part III: Eighteenth-Century Women in Modern Popular Culture
	12 Mother and Daughter in Beryl Bainbridge’s According to Queeney • Martha F. Bowden
	13 The Agency of Things in Emma Donoghue’s Slammerkin • Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace
	14 ‘Would you have us laughed out of Bath?’: Shopping Around for Fashion and Fashionable Fiction in Jane Austen Adaptations • Tamara S. Wagner
	15 Visualizing Empire in Domestic Settings: Designing Persuasion for the Screen • Andrew Macdonald and Gina Macdonald
	16 From Pride and Prejudice to Lost in Austen and Back Again: Reading Television Reading Novels • Claire Grogan
Contributors
Index