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Masters of the Marketplace: British Women Novelists of the 1750s
Susan . Ed(S): Carlile
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hardcover. Editor(s): Carlile, Susan. Num Pages: 268 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 166 x 22. Weight in Grams: 567.
Discussions about the development of the novel often jump directly from the 1740s, when Richardson and Fielding were particularly successful, to the 1770's, when women supposedly entered the marketplace in greater numbers. The little scholarship that focuses on the British novel in the 1750s has primarily addressed male output and concluded that the genre was faltering and in danger of extinction. Masters of the Marketplace is the first volume specifically to assess the importance of the 1750s in literary history and to argue that women novelists engaged in critical renovation of the novel as a genre and reclaimed it as ... Read more
Discussions about the development of the novel often jump directly from the 1740s, when Richardson and Fielding were particularly successful, to the 1770's, when women supposedly entered the marketplace in greater numbers. The little scholarship that focuses on the British novel in the 1750s has primarily addressed male output and concluded that the genre was faltering and in danger of extinction. Masters of the Marketplace is the first volume specifically to assess the importance of the 1750s in literary history and to argue that women novelists engaged in critical renovation of the novel as a genre and reclaimed it as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Lehigh University Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611460124
SKU
V9781611460124
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About Susan . Ed(S): Carlile
Susan Carlile is associate professor of English at California State University, Long Beach.
Reviews for Masters of the Marketplace: British Women Novelists of the 1750s
Susan Carlile’s edited collection Masters of the Marketplace: British Women Novelists of the 1750s, focuses on a vibrant but often overlooked period for the novel. The volume includes a strong range of essays by Kathryn King, Betty Schellenberg, Aleksondra Hultquist, Karen Cajka, Patricia Hamilton, Martha Kvande, and Carlile herself.
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