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Devoney LooserPublication Details
BookJohns Hopkins University Press2008Availability
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Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim — despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions. In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Edgeworth, Maria, — 1767-1849 — Criticism and interpretation
- Burney, Fanny, — 1752-1840 — Criticism and interpretation
- Barbauld, — Mrs — (Anna Letitia), — 1743-1825 — Criticism and interpretation
- English literature — Women authors — History and criticism
- Older women — Great Britain
- Women and literature — Great Britain — History — 18th century
- Women and literature — Great Britain — History — 19th century
- Old age — Social aspects — Great Britain
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- 9780801887055
- 0801887054
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