Women's Writing, 1660-1830: Feminisms and Futures

Introduction: Feminisms, Fictions, Futures: Women's Writing 1660-1830; Jennie Batchelor and Gillian Dow.- 1. Passing Judgement: The Place of the Aesthetic in Feminist Literary History; Ros Ballaster.- 2. Free Market Feminism? The Political Economy of Women's Writing; E.J. Clery.- 3. Feminist Literary History: How Do We Know We've Won?; Katherine Binhammer.- 4. Anon, Pseud and 'By a Lady': The Spectre of Anonymity in Women's Literary History; Jennie Batchelor.- 5. Authorial Performances: Actress, Author, Critic; Elaine McGirr.- 6. Pay, Professionalization and Probable Dominance? Women Writers and the Children's Book Trade; M.O. Grenby.- 7. 'There Are Numbers of Very Choice Books': Book Ownership and the Circulation of Women's Texts, 1680-98; Marie-Louise Coolahan and Mark Empey.- 8. Gender and the Material Turn; Chloe Wigston Smith.- 9. Archipelagic Literary History: Eighteenth-Century Poetry from Ireland, Scotland and Wales; Sarah Prescott.- 10. The 'Biographical Impulse' and Pan-European Women's Writing; Gillian Dow.- Postscript; Cora Kaplan.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.-