{"product_id":"british-women-writers-and-the-writing-of-history-1670-1820-9780801879050","title":"British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820","description":"\u003cp\u003eChosen by \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil recently, history writing has been understood as a male enclave from which women were restricted, particularly prior to the nineteenth century. The first book to look at British women writers and their contributions to historiography during the long eighteenth century, \u003ci\u003eBritish Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820, \u003c\/i\u003e asks why, rather than writing history that included their own sex, some women of this period chose to write the same kind of history as men--one that marginalized or excluded women altogether. But as Devoney Looser demonstrates, although British women's historically informed writings were not necessarily feminist or even female-focused, they were intimately involved in debates over and conversations about the genre of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLooser investigates the careers of Lucy Hutchinson, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Charlotte Lennox, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Austen and shows how each of their contributions to historical discourse differed greatly as a result of political, historical, religious, class, and generic affiliations. Adding their contributions to accounts of early modern writing refutes the assumption that historiography was an exclusive men's club and that fiction was the only prose genre open to women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Devoney Looser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/23\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.64h x 6.58w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801879050\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDevoney Looser \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eJane Austen and Discourses of Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor (with E. Ann Kaplan) of \u003ci\u003eGenerations: Academic Feminists in Dialogue.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40389512102003,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":55.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_3b88c4ec-0369-480c-9f20-9fa9770adab9.jpg?v=1661608954","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/british-women-writers-and-the-writing-of-history-1670-1820-9780801879050","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}