The essays included in Mary Hays’s ‘Female Biography’:
Collective Biography as Enlightenment Feminism emerge from the
authors’ collaboration in producing the first modern edition of
Hays’s work in the Chawton House Library Edition (2013, 2014).
This book explores Hays’s larger ambitions to lay the foundation
for an encyclopaedic work by, for, and about women. The scholars’
contributions to this volume engage with some of the multiple
problems and possibilities that Female Biography presented. Drawing
on this effort, individual scholars examine Hays’s attempts to
correct existing masculinist constructs which framed the
‘universe of knowledge’ then and persist in our time. Hays
perceived that these had the cumulative effect of rendering women
invisible. She responded to such absence by providing examples of
the extent of female worth across Western society. Other
contributions focus specifically on the subjects of Hays’s
entries, looking at how she used source material and laid the
groundwork for future biographical studies of women’s lives. Both
Female Biography and Hays herself have continually presented
difficulties in categorization: not quite Enlightenment, not quite
Victorian either. This book recontextualizes her work,
demonstrating the radicalism and originality of her feminism, even
in its post-Wollstonecraftian phase, as well as the longevity of
her influence. As such, it will be of interest to those conducting
research into Hays, her subjects, and the evolution of life-writing
by women. This book was originally published as a special issue of
Women’s Writing.
General
| Imprint: |
Routledge
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Historical Women's Writing |
| Release date: |
September 2020 |
| First published: |
2019 |
| Editors: |
Mary Spongberg
• Gina Luria Walker
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
174 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-367-66094-9 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-367-66094-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780367660949 |
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