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Women Writing Fancy: Authorship and Autonomy from 1611 to 1812
Maura Smyth
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Description for Women Writing Fancy: Authorship and Autonomy from 1611 to 1812
Hardback. Num Pages: 330 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; DSB; DSBF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book brings to the foreground the largely forgotten Fancy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and follows its traces as they extend into the nineteenth and twentieth. Trivialized for its flightiness and femininity, Fancy nonetheless provided seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women writers such as Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, Eliza Haywood, and Anna Barbauld a mode of vision that could detect flaws in the Enlightenment's patriarchal systems and glimpse new, female-authored worlds and genres. In carving out unreal, fanciful spaces within the larger frame of patriarchal culture, these women writers planted Fancy-and, with it, female authorial invention-at ... Read more
This book brings to the foreground the largely forgotten Fancy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and follows its traces as they extend into the nineteenth and twentieth. Trivialized for its flightiness and femininity, Fancy nonetheless provided seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women writers such as Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, Eliza Haywood, and Anna Barbauld a mode of vision that could detect flaws in the Enlightenment's patriarchal systems and glimpse new, female-authored worlds and genres. In carving out unreal, fanciful spaces within the larger frame of patriarchal culture, these women writers planted Fancy-and, with it, female authorial invention-at ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
295
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319494265
SKU
V9783319494265
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99-15
About Maura Smyth
Maura Smyth is Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Previously, she was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows
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