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Tables of Contents for Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of illustrations
vii
List of contributors
viii
Acknowledgements
xi
Chronology
xii
Introduction
1
24
Vivien Jones
PART I CONSTRUCTING WOMEN IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FEMININITIES
Writing on education and conduct: arguments for female improvement
25
21
Kathryn Sutherland
Eighteenth-century femininity: `a supposed sexual character'
46
23
Harriet Guest
Women and race: `a difference of complexion'
69
22
Felicity A. Nussbaum
WOMEN, FAMILY, AND THE LAW
Women's status as legal and civic subjects: `A worse condition than slavery itself'?
91
20
Gillian Skinner
Women in families: the great disinheritance
111
24
Ruth Perry
WOMEN AND PRINT
Women and the business of print
135
20
Paula McDowell
Women readers: a case study
155
24
Jan Fergus
PART II: WRITING WOMEN IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
(Re)discovering women's texts
179
18
Isobel Grundy
Women and the rise of the novel: sexual prescripts
197
20
Ros Ballaster
Women poets of the eighteenth century
217
21
Margaret Anne Doody
Women and the theatre
238
25
Angela J. Smallwood
Women and popular culture: gender, cultural dynamics, and popular prints
263
22
Dianne Dugaw
Varieties of women's writing
285
21
Clare Brant
Guide to further reading
306
5
Index
311