Gender, Art and Death (eBook)

Janet Todd is the author of several previous books including Feminist Literary History (Polity, 1988).

1. Introduction: Memory and Women's Studies.

2. Aphra Behn: The 'Lewd Widow' and her 'Masculine Part'.

3. Spectacular Deaths: History and Story in Aphra Behn's
Love-letters, Oroonoko and The Widow Ranter.

4. Pamela: or the Bliss of Servitude.

5. Marketing the Self: Mary Carleton, Miss F and Susannah
Gunning.

6. A Martyr to her Exigencies: Mary Ann Radcliffe.

7. Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Death.

8. Thoughts on the death of Fanny Wollstonecraft.

9. Jane Austen, Politics and Sensibility.

10. Who's Afraid of Jane Austen?

'These authoritative essays give their once marginalized subjects a
sense of stature, not just as women writers, but as authors well
integrated into the common pantheon.' Times Literary
Supplement

'This is a lucid and highly readable collection of essays...
interesting and informative... offering instructive insights into
changing constructions of gender and identity.' Modern Language
Review

'... An intriguing liberal intellectual argument...' Morning
Star

'Janet Todd's Gender, Art and Death is a refreshingly
accessible book from a writer who is, as always, aware yet
suspicious of shifts in theoretical fashion. ... excellent book....
Anyone interested in feminism, historicisim or literary history
would be well advised to savour the entire work for themselves.'
British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies