Overview

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched. The eighteenth century witnessed the rapid expansion of social, political, religious and literary networks in Great Britain. Increased availability of and access to print combined with the ease with which individuals could correspond across distance ensured that it was easier than ever before for writers to enter into the marketplace of ideas. However, we still lack a complex understanding of how literary networks functioned, what the term ‘network’ means in context, and how women writers in particular adopted and adapted to the creative possibilities of networks. This collection of essays address these issues from a variety of perspectives, arguing that networks not only provided women with access to the literary marketplace, but fundamentally altered how they related to each other, to their literary production, and to the broader social sphere. By examining the texts and networks of authors as diverse as Sally Wesley, Elizabeth Hamilton, Susanna Watts, Elizabeth Heyrick, Joanna Baillie, Mary Berry, Mary Russell Mitford, Mary Shelley and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, this volume demonstrates that attention to the scope and influence of women’s literary networks upends long standing assumptions about gender, literary influence and authorial formation during the Romantic period. Furthermore, it suggests that we must rethink what counts as literature in the Romantic period, how we read it, and how we draw the boundaries of Romanticism.

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Author:   Andrew O. Winckles ,  Angela Rehbein (Department of Humanities, West Liberty University (United States))
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   Liverpool University Press
Volume:   1
ISBN:  

9781786940605

ISBN 10:   1786940604
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   12 December 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Tables 1. Introduction: “A Tribe of Authoresses” - Andrew O. Winckles and Angela Rehbein 2. Sisters of the Quill: Sally Wesley, the Evangelical Bluestockings, and the Regulation of Enthusiasm – Andrew O. Winckles 3. Susanna Watts and Elizabeth Heyrick: Collaborative campaigning in the Midlands, 1820-1834 – Felicity James and Rebecca Shuttleworth 4. Ageing, authorship, and female networks in the life writing of Mary Berry (1763–1852) and Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) – Amy Culley 5. The Female Authors of Cadell and Davies – Michelle Levy and Reese Irwin 6. Modelling Mary Russell Mitford’s Networks: The Digital Mitford as Collaborative Database – Elisa Beshero-Bondar and Kellie Donovan-Condron 7. The Citational Network of Tighe, Porter, Barbauld, Lefanu, Morgan and Hemans – Harriet Kramer Linkin 8. Edgeworth’s Letters for Literary Ladies: Publication Peers and Analytical Antagonists – Robin Runia 9. Mary Shelley and Sade’s Global Network – Rebecca Nesvet 10. ‘Your Fourier’s Failed’: Networks of Affect and Anti-Socialist Meaning in Aurora Leigh – Eric Hood Afterword Index

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This is an excellent and eminently timely collection of essays, addressing a very real gap in scholarship. Both the guiding concept of the collection and its thoughtful organization attest to the critical, cultural, and scholarly acumen of the editors. The essays make a genuinely major contribution to scholarly inquiry, not just concerning 'Romanticism' in Britain, but also concerning women's social, intellectual, aesthetic, and political affiliations. Professor Stephen C. Behrendt, University of Nebraska -- Professor Stephen C. Behrendt

Author Information

Andrew O. Winckles is Assistant Professor of CORE Curriculum (Interdisciplinary Studies) at Adrian College. Angela Rehbein is Associate Professor of English at West Liberty University.

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