Nobody's story : the vanishing acts of women writers in the marketplace, 1670-1820 / Catherine Galla...
Nobody's story : the vanishing acts of women writers in the marketplace, 1670-1820 / Catherine Galla...
Nobody's story : the vanishing acts of women writers in the marketplace, 1670-1820 / Catherine Gallagher.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c1994.
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N820.99287/34
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English
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Physical content
xxiv, 339 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Who Was That Masked Woman? The Prostitute and the Playwright in the Works of Aphra Behn -- 2. The Author-Monarch and the Royal Slave: Oroonoko and the Blackness of Representation -- 3. Political Crimes and Fictional Alibis: The Case of Delarivier Manley -- 4. Nobody's Credit: Fiction, Gender, and...
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c1994.
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California
Date Published
c1994.
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Summary
Far from creating only minor variations on an essentially masculine figure, they delineated crucial features of "the author" for the period in general by emphasizing their trials and triumphs in the marketplace. "Woman," "author," "marketplace," and "fiction" thus reciprocally defined each other. Gallagher's sophisticated and engaging study powerfu...
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Nobody's story : the vanishing acts of women writers in the marketplace, 1670-1820 / Catherine Gallagher.
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New historicism 31.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c1994.
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N820.99287/34
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74VKOlXrlDGO
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ISBN
0520203380 (pbk.)
9780520085107 (alk. paper)
0520085108 (alk. paper)
9780520203389 (pbk.)
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820.9928709032
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991022665789702626
