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This anthology gathers together various texts by and about women,
ranging from `conduct' manuals to pamphlets on prostitution, from
medical texts to critical definitions of women's writing, from
anti-female satires to appeals for female equality. By making this
material more widely available, Women in the Eighteenth Century
complements the current upsurge in feminist writing on
eighteenth-century literary history and offers students the
opportunity to make their own rereadings of literary texts and
their ideological contexts.
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' Part of
Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed
by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and
collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile
cloth with foil stamped into the design. When Elizabeth Bennet
first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him
arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and
lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved
himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and
her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than
ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen
shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes
the friendships,gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class
life.
This anthology gathers together various texts by and about women,
ranging from conduct' manuals to pamphlets on prostitution, from
medical texts to critical definitions of women's writing, from
anti-female satires to appeals for female equality. By making this
material more widely available, Women in the Eighteenth Century
complements the current upsurge in feminist writing on
eighteenth-century literary history and offers students the
opportunity to make their own rereadings of literary texts and
their ideological contexts.
'Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking
all the way of the honour I had done him! O these fashionable
people!' Frances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel
is a vivid, satirical, and seductive account of the pleasures and
dangers of fashionable life in late eighteenth-century London. As
she describes her heroine's entry into society, womanhood and,
inevitably, love, Burney exposes the vulnerability of female
innocence in an image-conscious and often cruel world where social
snobbery and sexual aggression are played out in the public arenas
of pleasure-gardens, theatre visits, and balls. But Evelina's
innocence also makes her a shrewd commentator on the excesses and
absurdities of manners and social ambitions - as well as attracting
the attention of the eminently eligible Lord Orville. Evelina,
comic and shrewd, is at once a guide to fashionable London, a
satirical attack on the new consumerism, an investigation of
women's position in the late eighteenth century, and a love story.
The new introduction and full notes to this edition help make this
richness all the more readily available to a modern reader. ABOUT
THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made
available the widest range of literature from around the globe.
Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship,
providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable
features, including expert introductions by leading authorities,
helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for
further study, and much more.
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Selected Letters (Paperback)
Jane Austen; Selected by Vivien Jones
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R255
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In one of her personal letters, Jane Austen wrote "Little Matters
they are to be sure, but highly important." In fact, letter-writing
was something of an addiction for young women of Jane Austen's time
and in her social position, and Austen's letters have a freedom and
familiarity that only intimate writing can convey. Wiser than her
critics, who were disappointed that her correspondence dwelt on
gossip and the minutiae of everyday living, Austen understood the
importance of "Little Matters," of the emotional and material
details of individual lives shared with friends and family through
the medium of the letter. Ironic, acerbic, always entertaining,
Jane Austen's letters are a fascinating record not only of her own
day-to-day existence, but of the pleasures and frustrations
experienced by women of her social class which are so central to
her novels.
Vivien Jones's selection includes nearly two-thirds of Austen's
surviving correspondence, and her lively introduction and notes set
the novelist's most private writings in their wider cultural
context.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800 is unique in providing an authoritative, up-to-date overview of eighteenth-century women's writing and its contexts. The contributors are well-known feminist literary critics, cultural historians and historians of publishing. They discuss the construction of women, and women's writing across a wide range of genres, including essays on ideas of femininity, women and race, changing family structures, women and the law, and women as publishers and as readers. This book will be an invaluable resource both for students and experts in the field.
Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800 is unique in providing an authoritative, up-to-date overview of eighteenth-century women's writing and its contexts. The contributors are well-known feminist literary critics, cultural historians and historians of publishing. They discuss the construction of women, and women's writing across a wide range of genres, including essays on ideas of femininity, women and race, changing family structures, women and the law, and women as publishers and as readers. This book will be an invaluable resource both for students and experts in the field.
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