Overview
- Revitalizes an important but dismissed trope in literary history and the history of gender studies
- Examines a wealth of source material including works by Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, Eliza Haywood, and Anna Barbauld
- Re-conceptualizes the vitality of Fancy as a feminist mode of thought, becoming the first full-length study to do so
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Defining Modernity and Fixing Fancy
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Talking Back: Fanciful ‘Creatoresses’ of the Novel
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Fancy’s Afterlife
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About the author
Maura Smyth is Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Previously, she was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women Writing Fancy
Book Subtitle: Authorship and Autonomy from 1611 to 1812
Authors: Maura Smyth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49427-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49426-5Published: 25 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84159-5Published: 01 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49427-2Published: 11 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 295
Topics: Eighteenth-Century Literature, Literary History, Nineteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Culture and Gender, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature