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Women writers and the Edinburgh enlightenment / Pam Perkins.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; v. 15.Publication details: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (319 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789042031388
  • 9042031387
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Women writers and the Edinburgh enlightenment.DDC classification:
  • 823/.6 22
LOC classification:
  • PR4739.H164 Z814 2010eb
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Contents:
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."
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-313) and index.

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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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.

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