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Economic imperatives for women's writing in early modern Europe /

"The study of women's writing has become a lively field that has partaken in and given rise to many new directions in the broader field of literary studies"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Font Paz, Carme (Editor), Geerdink, Nina (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boston : Brill, [2018]
Series:Women writers in history ; volume 2
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: women, professionalisation, and patronage / Carme Font Paz and Nina Geerdink
  • Women authors' reputation and its relationship to money earned: some early French writers as examples / Suzan van Dijk
  • Words for sale: early modern Spanish women's literary economy / Nieves Baranda
  • Fighting for her profession: Dorothe's Engelbretsdatter's discourse of self-defence / Marie Nedregotten Sørbø
  • Writing for patronage or patronage for writing: two case studies in seventeenth-century and post-restoration women's poetry in Britain / Carme Font Paz
  • Possibilities of patronage: the Dutch poet Elisabeth Hoofman and her German patrons / Nina Geerdink
  • Between patronage and professional writing: the situation of eighteenth century women of letters in Venice: the example of Luisa Bergalli Gozzi / Rotraud von Kulessa
  • From Queen's librarian to voice of the Neapolitan Republic: Eleonora de Fonseca Pimentel / Irene Zanini-Cordi
  • "[S]ome employment in the translating way": economic imperatives in Charlotte Lennox's career as a translator / Marianna D'Ezio
  • Beating the odds: Sophie Albrecht (1756-1840), a successful woman writer and publisher in eighteenth-century Germany / Berit C.R. Royer.