Nobody's story : the vanishing acts of women writers in the marketplace, 1670-1820 /

Exploring the careers of five influential women writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century, Catherine Gallagher reveals the underlying connections between the increasing prestige of female authorship, the economy of credit and debt, and the rise of the novel. The "nobodies" of her t...

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Main Author: Gallagher, Catherine
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1995], ©1994.
Series:New historicism ; 31.
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Table of Contents:
  • Who was that masked woman?: The prostitute and the playwright in the works of Aphra Behn
  • The author-monarch and the royal slave: Oroonoko and the blackness of representation
  • Political crimes and fictional alibis: the case of Delarivier Manley
  • Nobody's credit: fiction, gender, and authorial property in the career of Charlotte Lennox
  • Nobody's debt: Frances Burney's universal obligation
  • The changeling's debt: Maria Edgeworth's productive fictions.