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Exploring the careers of five influential women writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century, Catherine Gallagher reveals the underlying connections between the increasing prestige of female authorship, the economy of credit and debt, and the rise of the novel. The "nobodies" of her title are not ignored, silenced, erased, or anonymous women.
Instead, they are literal nobodies: the abstractions of authorial personae, printed books, scandalous allegories, intellectual property rights, literary reputations, debts and obligations, and fictional characters. These are the exchangeable tokens of modern authorship that lent new cultural power to the increasing number of women writers through the eighteenth century. Women writers, Gallagher discovers, invented and popularized numerous ingenious similarities between their gender and their occupation.
Far from creating only minor variations on an essentially masculine figure, they delineated crucial features of "the author" for the period in general by emphasizing their trials and triumphs in the marketplace. "Woman," "author," "marketplace," and "fiction" thus reciprocally defined each other. Gallagher's sophisticated and engaging study powerfully revises our understanding of each of these terms and their interdependence in eighteenth-century Britain.
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Feminism and literature, LITERARY CRITICISM, Literature, European, Literature publishing, Electronic books, English literature, History and criticism, Sex role in literature, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Women authors, Economic conditions, Women and literature, English fiction, English Women authors, Irish authors, History, English literature, women authors, Publishers and publishing, great britainPlaces
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Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1920 (New Historicism-Studies in Cultural Poetics , No 31)
December 28, 1995, University of California Press
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Nobody's story: the vanishing acts of women writers in the marketplace, 1670-1820
1994, University of California Press
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Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1820
1994, University of California Press
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Nobody's story: the vanishing acts of women writers in the marketplace, 1670-1820
1994, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
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"Musing in 1821 in the vagaries of literary fashion, Walter Scott tells a story about his great aunt, who at the age of eighty wanted to reread a work of Aphra Behn's that she remembered finding delightful in your youth."
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