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Mary Leapor (1722-1746) was the kitchen-maid daughter of a
Northamptonshire gardener. In the past 15 years, her works have
been recovered from deep obscurity and she has been widely
recognized as possibly the most important woman poet of the
eighteenth century. This new edition, the first in 250 years,
provides an accurate text of all her known works, including prose
and drama. The volume has a substantial introduction summarizing
all that is known of her life and providing an over-view of current
scholarship. It also provides textual notes and detailed commentary
on individual works. This long-anticipated edition is expected to
become a landmark in eighteenth-century studies.
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Leading Well (Paperback)
David Pich, Ann Messenger
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R520
R485
Discovery Miles 4 850
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Exploring territory seldom visited by feminist scholars, Ann
Messenger in this new book presents eight studies of literary
relationships between men and women writers, ranging from the
Restoration to the end of the eighteenth century. The essays show
men and women working together, praising and criticizing each
other's work, borrowing -- and changing -- each other's plots and
characters, recording their different perceptions of their common
world. From Dryden's praise of Anne Killigrew, through Gay's and
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's collaboration on a town eclogue, Thomas
Southerne's dramatizations of novels by Aphra Behn, and Eliza
Haywood's version of the Spectator, to Cornelia Knight's sequel to
Rasselas, these relationships demonstrate that men and women
writers inhabited the same literary world, shared the traditions of
the mainstream of English literature. Most of the women have since
faded from view. But Messenger suggests the time has come to
rediscover them, to reassess their work, and to revise the commonly
accepted canon of literature accordingly. Although most of the
studies deal with the way women's writing responds to writing by
men, the Afterword combats the charge that the women's work is
"derivative." Free of critical jargon and ideological
strait-jacketing, His and Hers makes some little-known writers
available and interesting to specialists and nonspecialists,
feminists and traditionalists, alike, while it sheds new light on
some of the most familiar figures of the period. The Appendix
reprints some of the shorter works which have been analyzed in
detail, and summaries in the text help to compensate for the
unavailability of some of the women's books. The comparative
approach suggests a wide and rich field for further research.
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