Nobody's Story (eBook)

The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1920

Catherine Gallagher (Autor)

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2023
339 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-91714-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Gallagher analyzes the provocative plays of Aphra Behn, the scandalous court chronicles of Delarivier Manley, the properly fictional nobodies of Charlotte Lennox and Frances Burney, and finally Maria Edgeworth's attempts in the late eighteenth century to reform the unruly genre of the novel.


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.

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Who Was That Masked Woman? The Prostitute and the Playwright in the Works of Aphra Behn
2. The Author-Monarch and the Royal Slave: Oroonoko and the Blackness of Representation
3. Political Crimes and Fictional Alibis: The Case of Delarivier Manley
4. Nobody's Credit: Fiction, Gender, and Authorial Property in the Career of Charlotte Lennox
5. Nobody's Debt: Frances Burney's Universal Obligation
6. The Changeling's Debt: Maria Edgeworth's Productive Fictions

Index

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.4.2023
• Reihe/Serie: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics
• Reihe/Serie: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Schlagworte: 18th Century English Literature • Aphra Behn • authorial personae • Charlotte Lennox • credit and debit • cultural power • Cultural Studies • debts and obligation • Delarivier Manley • economy • female authorship • Fiction • fictional characters • frances barney • Gender Studies • genre of the novel • intellectual property rights • literary reputations • Literary Studies • marie edgeworth • Marketplace • modern authorship • New Historicism • printed books • restoration • Rise of the novel • studies in cultural poetics series • Women Writers
• ISBN-10: 0-520-91714-6 / 0520917146
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-91714-9 / 9780520917149