Authors: Vivien Jones
ISBN-13: 9780415034890, ISBN-10: 0415034892
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: April 1990
Edition: 1st Edition
This anthology gathers together various texts by and about women, ranging from `conduct' manuals to pamphlets on prostitution, from medical texts to critical definitions of women's writing, from anti-female satires to appeals for female equality. By making this material more widely available, Women in the Eighteenth Century complements the current upsurge in feminist writing on eighteenth-century literary history and offers students the opportunity to make their own rereadings of literary texts and their ideological contexts.