Title Publishing the woman writer in England, 1670-1750 / Leah Orr

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (285 p.) Contents Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Tables -- Figures -- 1. Perspectives on Women Writers in Print since 1670 -- 1.1 Eminent Ladies: Women's Literary History, 1752-1970 -- 1.2 Feminism and Recovery: Women's Literary History since 1970 -- 1.3 Women on Title Pages, 1670-1750: A Quantitative Overview -- 1.4 The Genres of Women's Writing -- 1.5 Case Study: Attribution, Uncertainty, and Gender: The Example of Love in Distress (1697) -- 2. Originality and Attribution: Establishing Authority in Print 2.1 Benefits and Costs of Authorship -- 2.2 Why Did Women Write? Why Did Women Publish? -- 2.3 Case Study: Aphra Behn's Paratextual Self-Fashioning -- 3. Mediating Women's Writing -- 3.1 Who Knew Whom? Helpers on the Path to Print -- 3.2 Three Kinds of Mediators -- 3.3 Case Study: Catharine Trotter/Cockburn and the Influence of Mediators -- 4. The Author as Subject: Problems of Biography -- 4.1 Biographical Criticism in an Age of Authorial Anonymity -- 4.2 Women's Autobiography, 1670-1750 -- 4.3 The "Life" of the Author -- 4.4 Picturing Women Writers 4.5 Case Study: Laetitia Pilkington as Subject -- 5. Women in Translation -- 5.1 An Overview of Foreign Women Writers in English, 1670-1750 -- 5.2 The Practice of Translation -- 5.3 Case Study: Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d'Aulnoy, and the Public Author -- 6. Real and Imagined Readers -- 6.1 Evidence of Actual Readers -- 6.2 Imagined Readers -- 6.3 Case Study: Anne Dacier for English Readers -- Conclusion: Towards a New History of Women Writers in England -- Bibliography -- Index Summary Based on a survey of nearly seven hundred works with female authors from this period, this book contends that authorship was constructed, not always by the author, for market appeal, that biography often supported an authorial persona rooted in the genre of the work, and that authorship was a role rather than an identity Notes Description based upon print version of record Subject Women authors, English -- 17th century Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century Women authors, English -- 18th century Authors and publishers -- England -- History -- 17th century Authors and publishers -- England -- History -- 18th century Authors and publishers Women and literature Women authors, English Literature: history & criticism. Literature. England Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0192886312 9780192886316 9780191981326 019198132X

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