British Women Satirists in the Long Eighteenth Century

Herausgeber: Hiner, Amanda; Tasker Davis, Elizabeth

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of innovative essays by leading scholars on eighteenth-century British women satirists showcases women's contributions to the satiric tradition and challenges the assumption that women were largely targets, rather than practitioners, of satire during the long eighteenth century. The essays examine women's satires across diverse genres, from the fable to the periodical, and attend to women writers' appropriation of a literary style and form often viewed as exclusively masculine. The introduction features a new theory of women's satire and proposes a framework for analyzing satiric techniques employed by women writers. Organized chronologically, the contributors' essays address a wide range of authors and explore the ways in which satiric writings by women engaged in contemporary cultural conversations, influencing assumptions about gender, sociability, politics, and literary practices. This inclusive yet tightly-focused collection formulates an innovative and provocative new feminist theory of satire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 615g
• ISBN-13: 9781108837361
• ISBN-10: 1108837360
• Artikelnr.: 62756405

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Amanda Hiner and Elizabeth Tasker Davis; Part I. Traditions
and Breaks: 1. Women Writers and Juvenal: 'singing plain truths' Paul
Baines; 2. Unlocking the Dressing Room: Mary Evelyn's Mundus Muliebris
Melinda Alliker Rabb; 3. Aphra Behn and Traditions of Satire Tanya
Caldwell; 4. Delarivier Manley: Satire as Conversation Rachel Carnell; 5.
The Pleasures of Satire in the Fables of Anne Finch Sharon Smith; Part II.
Publicity and Print Culture: Women Satirists during the Mid-Eighteenth
Century: 6. Women's Satires of the Literary Marketplace in
Eighteenth-Century England Catherine Ingrassia; 7. Charlotte Lennox,
Satirical Poetry, and the Rise of Participatory Democracy Susan Carlile; 8.
Jane Collier's Satirical Fable: Teeth, Claws, and Moral Authority in An
Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting Martha F. Bowden; 9. Hiding in
Plain Sight: Frances Burney as Satiric Novelist Marilyn Francus; Part III.
Moral Debates and Satiric Dialogue: Women Satirists and Eighteenth-Century
Sociability: 10. Anne Finch, Anna Seward, and Women's Relation to Formal
Verse Satire in the Long Eighteenth Century Claudia Thomas Kairoff; 11.
Satire as Gossip: Lady Anne Hamilton's The Epics of the Ton Michael Edson;
12. 'An invisible spy': Mary Robinson's Sylphid and the Image of the
Satirist Rayna Rosenova; 13. Austen's Menippean Experiments: Paternalism
and Empire in the Juvenilia and Mansfield Park Danielle Spratt.