LEADER 03838nam 2200697 450 001 9910495970403321 005 20230822212059.0 010 $a0-520-91714-6 010 $a0-585-17656-6 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520917149 035 $a(CKB)111054828791242 035 $a(dli)HEB09127 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000211673 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12021970 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000211673 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10311374 035 $a(PQKB)10428367 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520917149 035 $a(OCoLC)1153514878 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000011609359 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30495640 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30495640 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111054828791242 100 $a20230801h19951994 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aNobody's Story $eThe Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1920 /$fCatherine Gallagher 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aBerkeley, California :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[1995] 210 4$dİ1994 215 $a1 online resource (xxiv, 339 pages) 225 0 $aThe New Historicism ;$vVolume 31. 300 $a"First paperback printing 1995"--T.p. verso. 311 0 $a0-520-20338-0 311 0 $a0-520-08510-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Who Was That Masked Woman? --$t2. The Author-Monarch and the Royal Slave --$t3. Political Crimes and Fictional Alibis --$t4. Nobody's Credit --$t5. Nobody's Debt --$t6. The Changeling's Debt --$tIndex 330 $aExploring 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. 606 $aEnglish literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSex role in literature 606 $aWomen and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aWomen and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aWomen and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aEnglish literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSex role in literature. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 676 $a820.9/9287/09032 700 $aGallagher$b Catherine$0325348 712 02$aAmerican Council of Learned Societies. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495970403321 996 $aNobody's story$91256585 997 $aUNINA