Women's Work CB: Labour, Gender, Authorship, 17501830

by Jennie Batchelor

Book Overview

Women's Work challenges influential accounts about gender and the novel by revealing the complex ways in which labour, informed the lives and writing of a number of middling and genteel women authors publishing between 1750 and 1830. This book provides a particularly rich, yet largely neglected, seam of texts for exploring the vexed relationship between gender, work and writing. The four chapters that follow contain thoroughly contextualized case...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719082579
• ISBN13: 9780719082573
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.6"