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Autore |
Looser Devoney <1967-> |
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Titolo |
British women writers and the writing of history, 1670-1820 / / Devoney Looser |
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Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000 |
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ISBN |
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9780801876400 |
0-8018-7640-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (289 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-263) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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