Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century Women's Fiction and Social Engagement

by Paula R. Backscheider

Book Overview

Revising Women is a collection of essays by a distinguished group of feminist critics. Each essay is a contribution to the history of the English novel, to our understanding of literature's place in cultural debate, and to women's studies. The essays give steady attention to the ways novels participate in social processes and the ways women perceived the public sphere and stubbornly attempted to participate in it. Rich contextualization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080187095X
• ISBN13: 9780801870958
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"