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Title:

Everyday revolutions : eighteenth-century women transforming public and private / edited by Diane E. Boyd and Marta Kvande.

Publisher:

University of Delaware Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

287 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women authors, English--18th century--Political and social views.
Women in literature.
Women--Political activity.
Women in public life
Women--History--18th century.
Feminism--History--18th century.
Women--Social conditions--18th century.

Other Authors:

Boyd, Diane E., 1971-
Kvande, Marta, 1972-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-278) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: reading women, reading public and private / Diane E. Boyd and Marta Kvande -- Hanging on and hanging in : women's struggle to participate in public sphere debate / Paula R. Backscheider -- "The constant action of our lab'ring hands" : Mary Collier's demystification of work and womanhood in the early eighteenth century / Aruna Krishnamurthy -- Frances Brooke's environmental vandalism : carving sexual resistance on trees in The history of Emily Montague / Emily Smith -- A space between : prostitutes negotiating the public and the private in memoir novels of eighteenth-century France / Alistaire Tallent -- "I had rather be obscure. but I dare not" : women and methodism in the eighteenth century / Brett C. McInelly -- Frances Burney and Frances Sheridan : epistolary fiction and the public sphere / Marta Kvande -- Unspoken contracts : the carriage and women's work in Belinda / Diane E. Boyd -- "A walking ought": displacement and the public sphere in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park / Shea Stuart -- Order in the family court : maternal disruption in Chancery, Roxana, and Maria / Cheryl L. Nixon.

ISBN:

0874130077 (alk. paper)
9780874130072 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)169873613

LCCN:

2007036087

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)