| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 339 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
New historicism ; 31
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New historicism ; 31.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Who was that masked woman?: The prostitute and the playwright in the works of Aphra Behn -- Author-monarch and the royal slave: Oroonoko and the blackness of representation -- Political crimes and fictional alibis: the case of Delarivier Manley -- Nobody's credit: fiction, gender, and authorial property in the career of Charlotte Lennox -- Nobody's debt: Frances Burney's universal obligation -- Changeling's debt: Maria Edgeworth's productive fictions. |
| Summary |
Exploring the careers of five influential women writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century, Catherine Gallagher reveals the underlying connections between the increasing prestige of female authorship, the economy of credit and debt, and the rise of the novel. The "nobodies" of her title are not ignored, silenced, erased, or anonymous women. Instead, they are literal nobodies: the abstractions of authorial personae, printed books, scandalous allegories, intellectual property rights, literary reputations, debts and obligations, and fictional characters. These are the exchangeable tokens of modern authorship that lent new cultural power to the increasing number of women writers through the eighteenth century. Women writers, Gallagher discovers, invented and popularized numerous ingenious similarities between their gender and their occupation. Far from creating only minor variations on an essentially masculine figure, they delineated crucial features of "the author" for the period in general by emphasizing their trials and triumphs in the marketplace. "Woman," "author," "marketplace," and "fiction" thus reciprocally defined each other. Gallagher's sophisticated and engaging study powerfully revises our understanding of each of these terms and their interdependence in eighteenth-century Britain. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Women authors. |
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Women and literature. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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18th century |
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History.
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Feminism and literature. |
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Literature publishing -- Great Britain -- History.
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Literature publishing. |
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Women authors, English -- Economic conditions.
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Women authors, English -- Economic conditions. |
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Women authors, English. |
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Sex role in literature.
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Sex role in literature. |
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1600-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gallagher, Catherine. Nobody's story. Berkeley : University of California Press, [1995], ©1994 0520203380 (DLC) 94009208 (OCoLC)30026826 |
| ISBN |
9780520917149 (electronic book) |
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0520917146 (electronic book) |
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0585176566 (electronic book) |
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9780585176567 (electronic book) |
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9780520203389 (paperback) |
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0520203380 (paperback) |
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0520085108 (alkaline paper) |
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9780520085107 (alkaline paper) |
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0520203380 (paperback) |
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