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OverviewIn the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the 'woman writer' emerged as a category of authorship in England. Publishing the Woman Writer in England, 1670-1750 seeks to uncover how exactly this happened and the ways publishers tried to market a new kind of author to the public. Based on a survey of nearly seven hundred works with female authors from this period, this book contends that authorship was constructed, not always by the author, for market appeal, that biography often supported an authorial persona rooted in the genre of the work, and that authorship was a role rather than an identity. Through an emphasis on paratexts, including prefaces, title pages, portraits, and biographical notes, Leah Orr analyses the representation of women writers in this period of intense change to make two related arguments. First, women writers were represented in a variety of ways as publishers sought successful models for a new kind of writer in print. Second, a new approach is needed for studying early women writers and others who occupy gaps in the historical record. This book shows that a study of the material contexts of printed books is one way to work with the evidence that survives. It therefore begins with a very familiar kind of author-centric literary history and deconstructs it to conclude with a reception-centered history that takes a more encompassing view of authorship. In addition to analysis of many little-known and anonymous authors, case studies include Aphra Behn, Catharine Trotter/Cockburn, Laetitia Pilkington, Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, and Anne Dacier. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dr Leah Orr (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, University of Louisiana, Lafayette)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.666kg ISBN: 9780192886293ISBN 10: 0192886290 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 13 July 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsFrom 1670 to 1750, nearly 700 works are now identified as written by women, and though this is less than one per cent of the total print output, Orr's exploration and command of this corpus will help to inform research on women's writing in this period for years to come. * Melanie Bigold, Eighteenth-Century Fiction * Author InformationLeah Orr is Associate Professor of English at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, where she is the current holder of the Joseph P. Montiel Professorship in English. She is the author of Novel Ventures: Fiction and Print Culture in England, 1690-1730 (2017), and has published articles on book history, women writers, reception studies, and the novel in the long eighteenth century. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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