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  1. Nobody's story
    the vanishing acts of women writers in the marketplace, 1670-1820
    Erschienen: [1995], ©1994
    Verlag:  University of California Press, Berkeley

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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780520917149; 0520917146; 0585176566; 9780585176567; 9780520203389; 0520203380; 0520085108; 9780520085107
    Schriftenreihe: New historicism ; 31
    Schlagworte: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature / Women authors; Feminism and literature; Literature publishing; Sex role in literature; Women and literature; Women authors, English / Economic conditions; Geschichte; Wirtschaft; English literature; Women and literature; Women and literature; Women and literature; Feminism and literature; Literature publishing; Women authors, English; Sex role in literature; Schriftstellerin; Frauenliteratur; Gesellschaft; Englisch
    Weitere Schlagworte: Behn, Aphra (1640-1689); Lennox, Charlotte (1729-1804); Manley, Mary DeLaRivière (1663-1724); Edgeworth, Maria (1767-1849); Burney, Fanny (1752-1840)
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 339 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Who was that masked woman?: The prostitute and the playwright in the works of Aphra Behn -- - The author-monarch and the royal slave: Oroonoko and the blackness of representation -- - Political crimes and fictional alibis: the case of Delarivier Manley -- - Nobody's credit: fiction, gender, and authorial property in the career of Charlotte Lennox -- - Nobody's debt: Frances Burney's universal obligation -- - The changeling's debt: Maria Edgeworth's productive fictions

    Exploring the careers of five influential women writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century, Catherine Gallagher reveals the underlying 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, erased, or anonymous women. Instead, they are literal nobodies: the abstractions of authorial personae, printed books, scandalous allegories, 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. Far from creating only minor variations on an essentially masculine figure, they delineated crucial features of "the author" for the period in general by emphasizing their trials and triumphs in the marketplace. "Woman," "author," "marketplace," and "fiction" thus reciprocally defined each other. Gallagher's sophisticated and engaging study powerfully revises our understanding of each of these terms and their interdependence in eighteenth-century Britain