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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819984403321

Autore

Batchelor Jennie <1976->

Titolo

Women's work : labour, gender, authorship, 1750-1830 / / Jennie Batchelor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, : Distributed exclusively in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

ISBN

1-84779-776-8

1-78170-182-2

1-84779-267-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Disciplina

823.009355

Soggetti

English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

Labor in literature

Women in literature

Women - Employment - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Women - Employment - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [232]-244) and index.

Nota di contenuto

9780719082467; 9780719082467; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Archaeology and Elizabeth's empire; 2 Elizabethan fortifications in Ireland; 3 Colonial settlement; 4 Vernacular architecture; 5 The archaeology of Kilcolman Castle; 6 Spenserian architecture in Ireland; 7 Conclusions; Select bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Women's Work challenges influential accounts about gender and the novel by revealing the complex ways in which labour, informed the lives and writing of a number of middling and genteel women authors publishing between 1750 and 1830.This book provides a particularly rich, yet largely neglected, seam of texts for exploring the vexed relationship between gender, work and writing. The four chapters that follow contain thoroughly contextualized case studies of the treatment of manual, intellectual and domestic labour in the work and careers of



Sarah Scott, Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft and