British women writers and the writing of history, 1670-1820
著者
書誌事項
British women writers and the writing of history, 1670-1820
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000
- hbk.
- pbk.
大学図書館所蔵 件 / 全17件
-
該当する所蔵館はありません
- すべての絞り込み条件を解除する
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-263) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Until recently, history writing has been understood as a male enclave from which women were restricted, particularly prior to the 19th century. This work takes a look at British women writers and their contributions to historiography during the "long 18th century". It asks why, rather than writing history that included their own sex, some women of this period chose to write the same kind of history as men -one that marginalized or excluded women altogether. But as Devoney Looser demonstrates, although British women's historically informed writings were not necessarily feminist or even female-focused, they were intimately involved in debates over and conversations about the genre of history. Looser investigates the careers of Lucy Hutchinson, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Charlotte Lennox, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi and Jane Austen and shows how each of their contributions to historical discourse differed greatly as a result of political, historical, religious, class and generic affiliations.
Adding their contributions to accounts of early modern writing refutes the assumption that historiography was an exclusive men's club and that fiction was the only prose genre open to women.
目次
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introduction: British Women Writers and Historical Discourse
Chapter 2. The True and Romantic History of Lucy Hutchinson's Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson
Chapter 3. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Historian of Her Own Time
Chapter 4. Charlotte Lennox and the Study and Use of History
Chapter 5. "Deep Immers'd in the Historic Mine": Catharine Macaulay's History in Letters
Chapter 6. Hester Lynch Piozzi's Infinite and Exact World History, Retrospection
Chapter 7. Reading Jane Austen and Rewriting "Herstory"
Notes
Works Cited
Index
「Nielsen BookData」 より
