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This volume provides an overview of women writers in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Edinburgh literary world. Its main focus is on the careers of three women Elizabeth Hamilton, Anne Grant, and Christian Isobel Johnstone who were b.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Perkins, Pamela Ann
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010.
Colección:Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; v. 15.
Temas:
Hamilton, Elizabeth, > 1756?-1816 > Criticism and interpretation.
Grant, Anne MacVicar, > 1755-1838 > Criticism and interpretation.
Johnstone, C. I. > (Christian Isobel), > 1781-1857 > Criticism and interpretation.
Grant, Anne MacVicar, > 1755-1838
Hamilton, Elizabeth, > 1756?-1816
Johnstone, C. I. > (Christian Isobel), > 1781-1857
Scottish fiction > Women authors.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Excellent women, and not too blue : women writers in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Edinburgh
  • Enlightening the female mind : education, sociability, and the literary woman in the work of Elizabeth Hamilton
  • Incongruous things : primitivism and professionalism in the work of Anne Grant
  • Scarcely known to fame : the literary identities of Christian Isobel Johnstone
  • Modesty, money, and nostalgia : narratives of women's writing in Edinburgh's "age of greatness."

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