LEADER 03359nam 22005415 450 001 9910163994703321 005 20250609110059.0 010 $a9783319486550 010 $a3319486551 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-48655-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000001051388 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4800443 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-48655-0 035 $a(PPN)243006128 035 $a(Perlego)3490904 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6237407 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001051388 100 $a20170206d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aEighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the 'Scandalous Memoir' /$fby Caroline Breashears 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (124 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Pivot 311 08$a9783319486543 311 08$a3319486543 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction: Innovations in the "Scandalous Memoir" -- 2. The Business of Pleasure: The Life-Writings of Lady Vane and Madame de La Touche -- 3. Novel Memoirs: The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle and Memoirs of a Lady of Quality -- 4. The Family, Sex, and Marriage: Catherine Jemmat's Memoirs -- 5. "My Country is the World!" Margaret Coghlan's Revolutionary Memoirs -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aThis book contributes to the literary history of eighteenth-century women's life writings, particularly those labeled "scandalous memoirs." It examines how the evolution of this subgenre was shaped partially by several innovative memoirs that have received only modest critical attention. Breashears argues that Madame de La Touche's Apologie and her friend Lady Vane's Memoirs contributed to the crystallization of this sub-genre at mid-century, and that Lady Vane's collaboration with Tobias Smollett in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle resulted in a brilliant experiment in the relationship between gender and genre. It demonstrates that the Memoirs of Catherine Jemmat incorporated influential new strategies for self-justification in response to changing kinship priorities, and that Margaret Coghlan's Memoirs introduced revolutionary themes that created a hybrid: the political scandalous memoir. This bookwill therefore appeal to scholars interested in life writing, women's history, genre theory, and eighteenth-century British literature. Caroline Breashears is Associate Professor of English at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, USA. Her publications include essays about novels and eighteenth-century women's memoirs. 410 0$aPalgrave pivot. 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y18th century 606 $aEuropean literature 606 $aEighteenth-Century Literature 606 $aEuropean Literature 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aEuropean literature. 615 14$aEighteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aEuropean Literature. 676 $a828.50809 700 $aBreashears$b Caroline$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01059183 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910163994703321 996 $aEighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the 'Scandalous Memoir$92504570 997 $aUNINA