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Nobody's Story (Paperback)
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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.
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