Women's Life Writing, 1700-1850: Gender, Genre and Authorship

by Daniel Cook (Author), Daniel Cook (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2012

  $127.10

  This collection discusses British and Irish life writings by women in the period 1700-1850. It argues for the importance of women's life writing as part of the culture and practice of eighteenth-century and Romantic auto/biography, exploring the complex relationships between constructions of femininity, life writing forms and models of authorship.