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pp. 339, some minor pencil markings in the first few pages, o/w overall very good.
“Exploring the careers of five influential women writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century, Catherine Gallagher reveals the connections between the increasing prestige of female authorship, the economy of credit and debt, and the rise of the novel. The “nobodies” of her title are not ignored, silenced, or anonymous women. Instead, they are literal nobodies: the abstractions of authorial personae, printed books, intellectual property rights, literary reputations, debts and obligations, and fictional characters. These are the exchangeable tokens of modern authorship that lent new cultural power to the increasing number of women writers through the eighteenth century. Women writers, Gallagher discovers, invented and popularized numerous ingenious similarities between their gender and their occupation. The terms “woman,” “author,” “marketplace,” and “fiction” come to define each other reciprocally.
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| ISBN | 0520085108 | |
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| ISBN13 | 9780520085107 | |
| Number of pages | 339 | |
| Original Title | Nobody's Story : The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1820 | |
| Published Date | 1994 | |
| Book Condition | Very GOod | |
| Jacket Condition | Very Good | |
| Binding | Hardcover | |
| Size | 8vo | |
| Place of Publication | Berkeley, California | |
| Edition | first edition | |
| Category: | Special Literature | |
| Author: | Catherine Gallagher | |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
pp. 339, some minor pencil markings in the first few pages, o/w overall very good.
“Exploring the careers of five influential women writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century, Catherine Gallagher reveals the connections between the increasing prestige of female authorship, the economy of credit and debt, and the rise of the novel. The “nobodies” of her title are not ignored, silenced, or anonymous women. Instead, they are literal nobodies: the abstractions of authorial personae, printed books, intellectual property rights, literary reputations, debts and obligations, and fictional characters. These are the exchangeable tokens of modern authorship that lent new cultural power to the increasing number of women writers through the eighteenth century. Women writers, Gallagher discovers, invented and popularized numerous ingenious similarities between their gender and their occupation. The terms “woman,” “author,” “marketplace,” and “fiction” come to define each other reciprocally.
| Weight | 1 kg |
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