Introduction: Minding the Story / Clare Brant and Diane Purkiss -- 1. Why the Lady's Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun / Lorna Hutson -- 2. 'Yet Tell Me Some Such Fiction': Lady Mary Wroth's Urania and the 'Femininity' of Romance / Helen Hackett -- 3. Material Girls: The Seventeenth-Century Woman Debate / Diane Purkiss -- 4. Blazing Worlds: Seventeenth-Century Women's Utopian Writing / Kate Lilley -- 5. 'My Brain the Stage': Margaret Cavendish and the Fantasy of Female Performance / Sophie Tomlinson -- 6. 'The Person I Am, or What They Made Me To Be': The Construction of the Feminine Subject in the Autobiographies of Mary Carleton / Hero Chalmers -- 7. Whores' Rhetoric and the Maps of Love: Constructing the Feminine in Restoration Erotica / Bridget Orr -- 8. Manl(e)y Forms: Sex and the Female Satirist / Rosalind Ballaster -- 9. Speaking of Women: Scandal and the Law in the Mid-Eighteenth Century / Clare Brant
Analysis
English literature By Women
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-287) and index
