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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812037103321

Autore

Looser Devoney <1967->

Titolo

British women writers and the writing of history, 1670-1820 / / Devoney Looser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000

ISBN

9780801876400

0-8018-7640-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Disciplina

941/.007/2

Soggetti

Historiography - Great Britain - History - 18th century

English prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism

English prose literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Women historians - Great Britain

Great Britain Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-263) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: BritishWomenWriters and Historical Discourse -- 2 The True and Romantic History of Lucy Hutchinson's Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson -- 3 Lady MaryWortley Montagu: Historian of Her Own Time -- 4 Charlotte Lennox and the Study and Use of History -- 5 ''Deep Immers'd in the Historic Mine'': Catharine Macaulay's History in Letters -- 6 Hester Lynch Piozzi's Innite and Exact World History, Retrospection -- 7 Reading Jane Austen and Rewriting ''Herstory'' -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.