Momentary Fame: Female Novelists in Eighteenth-Century Book Reviews

Runge, Laura

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“…Grundy’s emphasis on cultural over literary knowledge remains compelling, but in recent years, we have seen a shift in the rationale for recovery based on quality. Work on 18th century book reviews, for example, shows that by the end of the century, women novelists achieved fame and respect as authors on par with or exceeding their male contemporaries (Runge). 2 Staves and Backscheider both advance arguments based on the esthetic standards for genres other than the novel.…”

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Teaching Eighteenth‐Century Women Writers

Runge

2010

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Although the availability of classroom texts and scholarship on 18th century British women writers has grown substantially in the past 20 years, little has been written about the classroom experience. This essay surveys the questions and materials that shape the teaching of female authors from Behn to Barbauld (roughly 1660–1800). Beginning with the arguments on recovery and esthetic or cultural appreciation, the essay reviews available texts (paper and digital sources), organization and methods of teaching, and further resources for the instructor. Throughout, the essay includes strategies for recursive critical reading and achieving general education learning objectives, thus demonstrating how the classroom can be used as a critical space for feminist recovery of early women writers.

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Pleas for Respectability: Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Theorizing the Novel

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2018

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The emergence and development of the modern novel used to be viewed as a largely masculine affair. However, over the past few decades, researchers and scholars have started to re-evaluate and acknowledge the importance of women’s literary and theoretical work to the rise and evolution of the genre. This article adds to these revisionist efforts by contributing to the ongoing discussion on the theoretical legacy left by some of the most notable British women writers of the long eighteenth century. The article analyses several texts (prefaces, dedications, dialogues, essays, reviews) in which they expressed their perspectives on questions situated at the core of the eighteenth-century debates concerning the novel. The critical and theoretical perspectives advanced by these writers are approached as contributions to the novel’s status as a respectable literary genre and, implicitly, as self-legitimizing efforts.

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Momentary Fame: Female Novelists in Eighteenth-Century Book Reviews

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Teaching Eighteenth‐Century Women Writers

Teaching Eighteenth‐Century Women Writers

Pleas for Respectability: Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Theorizing the Novel

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