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The Women of Grub Street - Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace 1678-1730 (Hardcover)
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The Women of Grub Street - Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace 1678-1730 (Hardcover)
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The period 1678-1730 was a decisive one not only in Western
political history but also in the history of the British press.
Changing conditions for political expression and an expanding book
trade enabled unprecedented opportunities for political activity.
The Women of Grub Street argues that women already at work in the
London book trade were among the first to seize those new
opportunities for public political expression. Synthesizing areas
of scholarly inquiry previously regarded as separate, and offering
a new model for the study of the literary marketplace, The Women of
Grub Street examines not only women writers, but also printers,
booksellers, ballad-singers, hawkers, and other producers and
distributors of printed texts. Original both in its sources and in
the claims it makes for the nature, extent, and complexities of
women's participation in print culture and public politics, it
provides a wealth of new information about middling and lower-class
women's political and literary lives, and shows that these women
were not merely the passive distributors of other people's
political ideas. The central argument of the book is that women of
the widest possible variety of socioeconomic backgrounds and
religio-political allegiances in fact played so prominent a role in
the production and transmission of political ideas through print as
to belie simultaneous powerful claims that women had no place in
public life. The first full-length study to suggest the degree of
involvement of women in the entire process of print creation at
this important moment, The Women of Grub Street supports a number
of important revisionary arguments with a broad range of literary
and archival evidence. It will be of interest to readers of
literature, social and publishing history, women's studies and
feminism, and the history of democracy and public discourse.
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