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Women's Work: Labour, Gender, Authorship, 1750-1830
Contributor(s): Batchelor, Jennie (Author)

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 ISBN: 0719095581     ISBN-13: 9780719095580
Publisher: Manchester University Press
OUR PRICE: $23.70  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Women Authors
- Literary Criticism | Feminist
- Social Science | Women's Studies
Dewey: 823.009
LCCN: 2010513766
Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" L (0.67 lbs) 268 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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Publisher Description:
Women's work challenges influential accounts about gender and the novel by revealing the complex ways in which labour, informed the lives and writing of a number of middling and genteel women authors publishing between 1750 and 1830.

This book provides a particularly rich, yet largely neglected, seam of texts for exploring the vexed relationship between gender, work and writing. The four chapters that follow contain thoroughly contextualized case studies of the treatment of manual, intellectual and domestic labour in the work
and careers of Sarah Scott, Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft and women applicants to the writer's charity, the Literary Fund.

By making women's work visible in our studies of female-authored fiction of the period, Batchelor reveals the crucial role that these women played in articulating debates about the gendered division of labour, the (in)compatibility of women's domestic and professional lives and the status and true
value of women's work that shaped eighteenth-century culture as surely as they shape our own.
 
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