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Romance Writings

By Wortley, Lady Mary

Romance Writings

By Wortley, Lady Mary

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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) is one of the most important women writers between Aphra Behn and Jane Austen, and one of her period's most provocative and entertaining writers of either sex. The narratives in this volume, with the exception of one juvenile piece, have never been printed before. They show the author experimenting in the genres of fiction and autobiography, more influenced by French models than by English, but always working experimentally against the grain of her various traditions. Besides page-turning narrative, these works offer the rare opportunity of a completely fresh taken on literary movements, cross-cultural relations, gender ideologies, and other literary debates of the early eighteenth century. Our existing picture of what was once possible in literature and what was possible for women at this time cannot remain unchanged once these writings appear.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
308
Release Date:
1996-05-23
Publication Date:
1996-02-29
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198183194
ISBN13:
9780198183198
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
568 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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