03838nam 2200697 450 991049597040332120230822212059.00-520-91714-60-585-17656-610.1525/9780520917149(CKB)111054828791242(dli)HEB09127(SSID)ssj0000211673(PQKBManifestationID)12021970(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000211673(PQKBWorkID)10311374(PQKB)10428367(DE-B1597)9780520917149(OCoLC)1153514878(MiU)MIU01000000000000011609359(MiAaPQ)EBC30495640(Au-PeEL)EBL30495640(EXLCZ)9911105482879124220230801h19951994 uy 1engurmnummmmuuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierNobody's Story The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1920 /Catherine GallagherFirst edition.Berkeley, California :University of California Press,[1995]©19941 online resource (xxiv, 339 pages)The New Historicism ;Volume 31."First paperback printing 1995"--T.p. verso.0-520-20338-0 0-520-08510-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. Who Was That Masked Woman? --2. The Author-Monarch and the Royal Slave --3. Political Crimes and Fictional Alibis --4. Nobody's Credit --5. Nobody's Debt --6. The Changeling's Debt --IndexExploring the careers of five influential women writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century, Catherine Gallagher reveals the connections between the increasing prestige of female authorship, the economy of credit and debt, and the rise of the novel. The "nobodies" of her title are not ignored, silenced, or anonymous women. Instead, they are literal nobodies: the abstractions of authorial personae, printed books, intellectual property rights, literary reputations, debts and obligations, and fictional characters. These are the exchangeable tokens of modern authorship that lent new cultural power to the increasing number of women writers through the eighteenth century. Women writers, Gallagher discovers, invented and popularized numerous ingenious similarities between their gender and their occupation. The terms "woman," "author," "marketplace," and "fiction" come to define each other reciprocally. Gallagher analyzes the provocative plays of Aphra Behn, the scandalous court chronicles of Delarivier Manley, the properly fictional nobodies of Charlotte Lennox and Frances Burney, and finally Maria Edgeworth's attempts in the late eighteenth century to reform the unruly genre of the novel.English literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismSex role in literatureWomen and literatureGreat BritainHistory17th centuryWomen and literatureGreat BritainHistory18th centuryWomen and literatureGreat BritainHistory19th centuryEnglish literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Sex role in literature.Women and literatureHistoryWomen and literatureHistoryWomen and literatureHistory820.9/9287/09032Gallagher Catherine325348American Council of Learned Societies.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910495970403321Nobody's story1256585UNINA