British women writers and the writing of history, 1670-1820 / / Devoney Looser

• Autore: Looser Devoney <1967->
• Pubblicazione: Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 941/.007/2
• Soggetto topico: Historiography - Great Britain - History - 18th century; English prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism; English prose literature - 18th century - History and criticism; Women historians - Great Britain
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Historiography
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-263) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: BritishWomenWriters and Historical Discourse -- 2 The True and Romantic History of Lucy Hutchinson's Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson -- 3 Lady MaryWortley Montagu: Historian of Her Own Time -- 4 Charlotte Lennox and the Study and Use of History -- 5 ''Deep Immers'd in the Historic Mine'': Catharine Macaulay's History in Letters -- 6 Hester Lynch Piozzi's Innite and Exact World History, Retrospection -- 7 Reading Jane Austen and Rewriting ''Herstory'' -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Adding their contributions to accounts of early modern writing refutes the assumption that historiography was an exclusive men's club and that fiction was the only prose genre open to women.
• Titolo autorizzato: British women writers and the writing of history, 1670-1820
• ISBN: 9780801876400; 0-8018-7640-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812037103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II