Gender, Art and Death

J Todd (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

1993
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-1055-9 (ISBN)

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Janet Todd is one of the leading authorities on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women writers. The author discusses women and issues of gender from the Restoration to Romanticism. She examines the complex connections between art and life as revealed by women authors. The author's previous books have sold well.

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?

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.7.1993
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 232 mm
Gewicht	288 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-7456-1055-2 / 0745610552
ISBN-13	978-0-7456-1055-9 / 9780745610559
Zustand	Neuware