The history of British women's writing / general editors, Jennie Batchelor and Cora Kaplan.
"Volume 1 focuses on women's literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500. It brings to the fore a wide range of women's literary activity undertaken in Latin, Welsh and Anglo-Norman alongside that of the English vernacular, demanding a rethinking of the traditions of literary his...
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Table of Contents:
- v. 1. 700-1500 / edited by Liz Herbert McAvoy and Diane Watt
- v. 2. 1500-1610 / edited by Caroline Bicks and Jennifer Summit
- v. 3. 1610-1690 / edited by Mihoko Suzuki
- v. 4. 1690-1750 / edited by Ros Ballaster
- v. 5. 1750-1830 / edited by Jacqueline M. Labbe
- v. 6. 1830-1880 / edited by Lucy Hartley
- v. 7. 1880-1920 / edited by Holly A. Laird
- v. 8. 1920-1945 / edited by Maroula Joannou
- v. 9. 1945-1975 / edited by Clare Hanson and Susan Watkins
- v. 10. 1970-present / edited by Mary Eagleton and Emma Parker.
- v. 1: Introduction: writing a history of women's writing from 700 to 1500 / L. Herbert McAvoy & D. Watt
- Part I: pre-texts and contexts. Women and the origins of English literature / C.A. Lees & G.R. Overing
- Literary production before and after the conquest / C.A.M. Clarke
- The French of the English and early British women's literary culture / C. Batt
- Women writers in Wales / J. Cartwright
- Medieval antifeminism / A. Bernau
- Part II: bodies, behaviours and texts. Romance / C. Saunders
- Saints' lives / S. Horner
- Devotional literature / M.M. Sauer
- Marian literature / S. Niebryzdowski
- Late medieval conduct literature / M.J. Seaman
- Part III: literacies and literary cultures. Women and their manuscripts / C.M. Meale
- Women and reading / L. Farina
- Women and networks of literary production / E. Robertson
- Anonymous writers / L.H. McAvoy
- Women translators / A. Barratt
- Women's letters, 1350-1500 / J. Daybell
- Part IV: female authority. Christine de Pizan and Joan of Arc / N.B. Warren
- Mary of Oignies / J.N. Brown
- Bridget of Sweden / L. Saetveit Miles
- Catherine of Siena / A.C. Grisé́
- Julian of Norwich / A. Appleford
- Margery Kempe / D. Watt
- 'A revelation of purgatory' / M.C. Erler.
- v. 2: Introduction / C. Bicks & J. Summit
- Part I: reading and writing. Reading women / H. Brayman Hackel
- Literary circles and communities / J. Crawford
- Women in early English print culture / A. Coldiron
- Part II: writing places: domestic settings. Household writing / C. Richardson
- Maternal advice / E. Snook
- Letters / L. Magnusson
- Playing spaces. The street / P.A. Brown
- The theater / M. Wynne-Davies
- Tudor courts. The courts / C. Sale
- Elizabeth I / C. Coch
- Part III: developing histories. Religious writing and reformation / N. Bradley Warren
- Race and skin color in early modern women's writing / S. Lyengar
- Translation/historical writing / C. Laoutaris.
- v. 3: Introduction / M. Suzuki
- Part I: networks, debates, traditions, discourses. Identifying as (women) writers / P. Salzman
- Channeling the gender debate: legitimation and agency in seventeenth-century tracts and women's poetry / M. Matchinske
- All about Eve: seventeenth century women writers and the narrative of the fall / S. Miller
- English civil war women writers and the discourses of fifth monarchism / K. Gillespie
- Part II: modes and sites. Seventeenth-century women's manuscript writing / V. Burke
- Reading seventeenth-century women's letters / S. Wiseman
- 'Herselfe livinge, to be pictured': 'monumental circles' and women's self-portraiture / P. Phillippy
- Part III: new perspectives on literary genres. 'More lively, parfett, lasting, and more true': Mary Wroth's indefensible apologies for poesy / C. Kinney
- Valuing early modern women's verse in the twenty-first century / P. Hammons
- Early modern English women dramatists (1610-1690): new perspectives / M. Wynne-Davies
- History, satire, and fiction by British women writers in the seventeenth century / M. Reeves
- Part IV: revisioning contexts. Critiquing the sexual economies of marriage / T. Jankowski
- 'The empire of man over the inferiour creatures': British women, race, and seventeenth-century science / C. Malcolmson
- Questioning gender, war, and the 'Old Lie': the military expertise of Margaret Cavendish / J. Wright
- Women, civil war, and empire: the politics of translation in Katherine Philips's Pompey and Horace / M. Suzuki
- English women's writing and Islamic empires, 1610-90 / B. Andrea.
- v. 4: Introduction / Ros Ballaster
- Part I: debates. Woman's place / Karen O'Brien
- Luxury / E.J. Clery
- The country and the city / Christine Gerrard
- Part II: transformations. The politics and aesthetics of dissent / Sharon Achinstein
- The Scriblerian project / Jill Campbell
- Women writers and the rise of the novel / Kate Williams
- Part III: writing modes. Scribal and print publication / Kathryn R. King
- Drama / Jane Spencer
- The periodical / Shawn Lisa Maurer
- Letters and learning / Melanie Bigold
- Part IV: worlds of feeling. Religious love / Jane Shaw
- Erotic love / Toni Bowers
- The love of friendship / Moyra Haslett
- Part V: Overview. Critical review / Ros Ballaster.
- v. 5: Introduction: defining "women's writing"; or, writing "the history" / Jacqueline M. Labbe
- Part I: 1750-1830: Overviews. Women and print culture, 1750-1830 / Michelle Levy
- Women's travel writing, 1750-1830 / Katherine Turner
- Part II: 1750-1800: Revolutions in female writing. Bluestocking women and the negotiation of oral, manuscript, and print cultures / Betty A. Schellenberg
- "[T]o strike a little out of a road already so much beaten" : gender, genre, and the mid-century novel / Jennie Batchelor
- Anglophone Welsh women's poetry 1750-84 : Jane Cave and Anne Penny / Sarah Prescott
- The poem that ate America : Helen Maria Williams's Ode on the peace (1783) / Kate Davies
- Picturing benevolence against the commercial cry, 1750-98 : or, Sarah Fielding and the secret causes of romanticism / Donna Landry
- Women writers and abolition / Deidre Coleman
- Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft, and the romance of real life / Stuart Curran
- Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, and the first year of the war with France / Harriet Guest
- Part III: 1800-1830: Worlds of writing. The Porter sisters, women's writing, and historical fiction / Devoney Looser
- Joanna Baillie's emblematic theatre / Betsy Bolton
- National internationalism : women's writings and European literature, 1800-30 / Diego Saglia
- Jane Austen's critical response to women's writing : "a good spot for fault-finding" / Olivia Murphy
- Mary Tighe and the coterie of women poets in Psyche / Harriet Kramer Linkin
- Influence, anxiety, and erasure in women's writing : romantic becomes Victorian / Stephen C. Behrendt.
- v. 6: Introduction : the 'business' or writing women / Lucy Hartley
- Part I: divisions of writing. The feminisation of literary culture / Joanne Shattock
- Gender, authorship, and the periodical press / Alexis Easley
- The professional woman writer / Linda K. Hughes
- Part II: reading places. Mapping the nation : Scotland and Britain / Suzanne Gilbert
- Representing Ireland / Margaret Kelleher
- Runaway discourse : women write slavery, race, and empire / Cora Kaplan
- Women writers and the provincial novel / Josephine McDonagh
- Library lives of women / Susan David Bernstein
- Part III: writing genres. Travel writing / Ella Dzelzainis
- Religious genres / Julie Melnyk
- Women playwrights and the London stage / Sharon Aronofsky Weltman
- Life writing / Valerie Sanders
- Scientific and medical genres / Claire Brock
- Part IV: reading women writing modernity
- Creativity / Alison Chapman
- Sensation, art, and capital / Lucy Hartley
- Writing across the class divide / Florence S. Boos
- Friendship and intimacy / Jill Rappoport
- Sympathy / Carolyn Burdett.
- v. 7: Introduction: a revolutionary moment / Holly A. Laird
- Part. I. Modern women. The (Irish) new woman: political, literary, and sexual experiments / Tina O'Toole
- Fin-de siècle Ouida: a new woman writing against the new woman? / Lyn Pykett
- The new woman in Wales: Welsh women's writing, 1880-1920 / Jane Aaron
- British women writers, technology, and the sciences, 1880-1920 / Lisa Hager
- Mediating women: Evelyn Sharp and the modern media fictions of suffrage / Barbara Green ; From the decadent to the queer. Female decadence / Joseph Bristow
- Re-writing Myths of Creativity: Pygmalionism, Galatea figures, and the revenge of the muse in late Victorian literature by women / Catherine Delyfer
- Venus in the museum: women's representations and the rise of public art institutions / Ruth Hoberman
- Women's nature and the neo-pagan movement / Dennis Denisoff ; From nation to the globe. This nation which is not one: Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm / Holly A. Laird
- Geographies of self: Scottish women writing Scotland / Glenda Norquay
- Modern travel on the fringes of empire / Judy Suh
- Women writing Japan / Edward Marx
- Part II. Modern genres: From the story to the lyric. New women writing beyond the novel: short stories / Margaret D. Stetz
- Material negotiations: women writing the short story / Kate Krueger
- Women's lyric, 1880-1920 / Emily Harrington
- Vigo Street Sapphos: the Bodley Head Press and women's poetry of the 1890s / Linda H. Peterson
- From journalism to the war memoir. Women's slum journalism, 1885-1910 / S. Brooke Cameron
- Turn-of-the-century women writing about art, 1880-1920 / Meaghan Clarke
- The British female detective written by women, 1890-1920 / Joseph Kestner
- Writing modern deaths: women, war, and the view from the home front / Bette London.
- v. 8: Introduction. Modernism, modernity, and the middlebrow in context / Maroula Joannou
- Part I. Mapping modernism. Gender in modernism / Bonnie Kime Scott ; Exemplary intermodernists : Stevie Smith, Inez Holden, Betty Miller, and Naomi Mitchison / Kristin Bluemel ; Virginia Woolf and the aesthetics of modernism / Jane Goldman ; The art of bi-location : Sylvia Townsend Warner / Maud Ellmann
- Part II. Cultural hierarchy. The feminine middlebrow novel / Nicola Humble ; Women and comedy / Sophie Blanch ; The woman's historical novel / Diana Wallace ; "Queens of crime" : the "golden age" of crime fiction / Cora Kaplan
- Part III. Gendered genres. Poetry, 1920-1945 / Jane Dowson ; Drama, 1920-1945 / Rebecca D'Monté ; The woman journalist, 1920-1945 / Catherine Clay
- Part IV. The mobile woman. Caught in the triple net? Welsh, Scottish, and Irish women writers / Katie Gramich ; Women's writing in the Second World War / Gill Plain ; Women writing empire / Lisa Regan ; Women writing the city / Deborah Longworth ; Myths of passage : Paris and Parallax / Tory Young.
- v. 9: Introduction / Clare Hanson and Susan Watkins
- Part I. Changing forms. Post-war fiction: Realism and experimentalism / Kaye Mitchell ; Lyric, narrative and performance in poetry / Jane Dowson ; Look back in gender: drama / Gabriele Griffin ; Journalism / Deborah Chambers
- Part II. Reconstructing gender. Angry young women: education, class, and politics / Mary Eagleton ; Sex, censorship and identity / Kerry Myler ; The Second Wave / Leanne Bibby ; The aftermath of war / Kristin Bluemel
- Part III. Global politics. Responding to the Holocaust / Sue Vice ; Internal empire / Katie Gramich ; The transcultural tryst in migration, exile and diaspora / Sandra Courtman ; 'Witness literature' in the post-war novels of Storm Jameson and Doris Lessing / Elizabeth Maslen
- Part IV. Expanding genres. Double trouble: Helen MacInnes's and Agatha Christie's speculative spy thrillers / Phyllis Lassner ; Historical fictions / Diana Wallace ; Children's literature: ideologies of the past, present and future / Catherine Butler ; Science fiction / Susan Watkins.
- v. 10: Introduction / Mary Eagleton and Emma Parker
- Part I. Women and literary culture. Fiction: from realism to postmodernism and beyond / Clare Hanson ; Poetry on page and stage / Jane Dowson ; Mrs Worthington's daughters: drama / Gabriele Griffin ; Media old and new / Deborah Chambers ; Publishing and prizes / Gail Low
- Part. II. Feminism and fiction: evolution and dissent. The Grandes dames : writers of longevity / Maroula Joannou ; 'The monstrous regiment': literature and the women's liberation movement / Imelda Whelehan ; Writing the f-word : girl power, the third wave, and postfeminism / Rebecca Munford
- Part. III. Gender and genre. The gothic: danger, discontent, and desire / Sue Zlosnik ; Changing the story: fairy tale, fantasy, myth / Elizabeth Wanning Harries ; Disputing the past: historical fiction / Jeannette King ; Life lines: auto/biography and memoir / Linda Anderson
- Part IV. Writing the nation : difference, diaspora, devolution. Writing the nations: Welsh, Northern Irish, and Scottish literature / Hywel Dix ; Unsettling the centre: black British fiction / Suzanne Scafe ; Redefining Britishness: British Asian Fiction / Ruvani Ranasinha
- Part V. Writing now. Writing now / Claire Chambers and Susan Watkins.