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Title Economic imperatives for women's writing in early modern Europe / edited by Carme Font Paz and Nina Geerdink
Published Boston : Brill, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Women writers in history ; volume 2
Contents Introduction: women, professionalisation, and patronage / Carme Font Paz and Nina Geerdink -- Women authors' reputation and its relationship to money earned: some early French writers as examples / Suzan van Dijk -- Words for sale: early modern Spanish women's literary economy / Nieves Baranda -- Fighting for her profession: Dorothe's Engelbretsdatter's discourse of self-defence / Marie Nedregotten Sørbø -- Writing for patronage or patronage for writing: two case studies in seventeenth-century and post-restoration women's poetry in Britain / Carme Font Paz -- Possibilities of patronage: the Dutch poet Elisabeth Hoofman and her German patrons / Nina Geerdink -- Between patronage and professional writing: the situation of eighteenth century women of letters in Venice: the example of Luisa Bergalli Gozzi / Rotraud von Kulessa -- From Queen's librarian to voice of the Neapolitan Republic: Eleonora de Fonseca Pimentel / Irene Zanini-Cordi -- "[S]ome employment in the translating way": economic imperatives in Charlotte Lennox's career as a translator / Marianna D'Ezio -- Beating the odds: Sophie Albrecht (1756-1840), a successful woman writer and publisher in eighteenth-century Germany / Berit C.R. Royer
Summary "The study of women's writing has become a lively field that has partaken in and given rise to many new directions in the broader field of literary studies"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject European literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Women authors, European -- Early modern, 1500-1700
Women authors, European -- Economic conditions
Women and literature -- Europe -- History -- Early modern, 1500-1700
Authorship -- Economic aspects -- Europe -- History -- Early modern, 1500-1700
Authors and patrons -- History -- Early modern, 1500-1700
Literature publishing -- Europe -- History -- Early modern, 1500-1700
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
European literature -- Women authors
Europe
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Font Paz, Carme, editor
Geerdink, Nina, editor
ISBN 9789004383029
9004383026