Women's literary networks and Romanticism : "a tribe of authoresses"
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Women's literary networks and Romanticism : "a tribe of authoresses"
（Romantic reconfigurations : studies in literature and culture 1780-1850）
Liverpool University Press, 2017
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Includes bibliographical references (end of each chapter) and index (p. 307-314)
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.
The eighteenth century witnessed the rapid expansion of social, political, religious and literary networks in Great Britain. Increased availability of and access to print combined with the ease with which individuals could correspond across distance ensured that it was easier than ever before for writers to enter into the marketplace of ideas. However, we still lack a complex understanding of how literary networks functioned, what the term 'network' means in context, and how women writers in particular adopted and adapted to the creative possibilities of networks. This collection of essays address these issues from a variety of perspectives, arguing that networks not only provided women with access to the literary marketplace, but fundamentally altered how they related to each other, to their literary production, and to the broader social sphere. By examining the texts and networks of authors as diverse as Sally Wesley, Elizabeth Hamilton, Susanna Watts, Elizabeth Heyrick, Joanna Baillie, Mary Berry, Mary Russell Mitford, Mary Shelley and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, this volume demonstrates that attention to the scope and influence of women's literary networks upends long standing assumptions about gender, literary influence and authorial formation during the Romantic period. Furthermore, it suggests that we must rethink what counts as literature in the Romantic period, how we read it, and how we draw the boundaries of Romanticism.
Table of Contents
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1. Introduction: "A Tribe of Authoresses" - Andrew O. Winckles and Angela Rehbein
2. Sisters of the Quill: Sally Wesley, the Evangelical Bluestockings, and the Regulation of Enthusiasm - Andrew O. Winckles
3. Susanna Watts and Elizabeth Heyrick: Collaborative campaigning in the Midlands, 1820-1834 - Felicity James and Rebecca Shuttleworth
4. Ageing, authorship, and female networks in the life writing of Mary Berry (1763-1852) and Joanna Baillie (1762-1851) - Amy Culley
5. The Female Authors of Cadell and Davies - Michelle Levy and Reese Irwin
6. Modelling Mary Russell Mitford's Networks: The Digital Mitford as Collaborative Database - Elisa Beshero-Bondar and Kellie Donovan-Condron
7. The Citational Network of Tighe, Porter, Barbauld, Lefanu, Morgan and Hemans - Harriet Kramer Linkin
8. Edgeworth's Letters for Literary Ladies: Publication Peers and Analytical Antagonists - Robin Runia
9. Mary Shelley and Sade's Global Network - Rebecca Nesvet
10. 'Your Fourier's Failed': Networks of Affect and Anti-Socialist Meaning in Aurora Leigh - Eric Hood
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