British Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century (140394931X) KAPLAN

British Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century highlights the ways in which women writers were key to the creation of the worlds of politics and letters in the period, reading the possibilities and limits of their engagement in those worlds as more complex and nuanced than earlier paradigms would suggest.

List of Illustrations * Acknowledgements * Notes on Contributors * Introduction; J.Batchelor & C.Kaplan * PART I: AUTHORSHIP AND PRINT CULTURE * Woman's Work: Labour, Gender and Authorship in the Novels of Sara Scott; J.Batchelor * Anna Seward: Swan, Duckling or Goose?; N.Clarke * Spectral Texts in Mansfield Park; K.Halsey * Romantic Patronage: Mary Robinson and Coleridge Revisited; J.Hawley * Ivory Miniatures and the art of Jane Austen; J.Todd * Mansfield Park- What did Jane Austen Really Write? The Texts of 1814 and 1816; B. Southam * PART II: HISTORY AND POLITICS * 'Thou monarch of my Panting Soul': Hobbesian Obligation and the Durability of Romance in Behn's Love Letters; H.Thompson * British Women Write the East after 1750: Revisiting a 'Feminine Orient'; F.A.Nussbaum * 'Tied to Their Species By the Strongest of All Relations': Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rewriting of Race as Sensibility: M Rickman * Hannah More and Conservative Feminism; H.Guest * Chawton House: Gathering Old Books for a New Library; I.Grundy * Index

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