Women's work [[electronic resource] ] : labour, gender, authorship, 1750-1830 / / Jennie Batchelor
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| Autore: |
Batchelor Jennie <1976->
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| Titolo: |
Women's work [[electronic resource] ] : labour, gender, authorship, 1750-1830 / / Jennie Batchelor
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| Pubblicazione: | Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, : Distributed exclusively in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 823.009355 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | Charlotte Smith |
| Literary Fund | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | |
| Sarah Scott | |
| division of labour | |
| female-authored fiction | |
| gender | |
| women authors | |
| women's work | |
| writing | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Women's work |
| ISBN: | 1-84779-776-8 |
| 1-78170-182-2 | |
| 1-84779-267-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910791948003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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