The sign of Angellica : women, writing, and fiction, 1660-1800 / Janet Todd.

• The Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century: Signs and Sexuality -- The Female Wirs: Women Writers of the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century -- 'Were I Empress of the World': The 'German Princess' and the Duchess of Newcastle -- 'An Honour and Glory to our Sex': Aphra Behn -- LIfe after Sex: Delarivier Manley -- The Mid-Eighteenth Century: Sentiment and Sincerity -- The Modest Muse: Women Writers of the Mid-Eighteenth Century -- Re-formers: Eliza Haywood and Charlotte Lennox -- Novelists of Sentiment: Sarah Fielding and Frances Sheridan -- The Fantasy of Sensibility: Frances Brooke and Susannah Gunning -- The Late Eighteenth Century: The Decades of Revolution -- Radicals and Reactionaries: Women Writers of the Late Eighteenth Century -- 'The Unsex'd Females': Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Hayes -- 'The Great Enchantress': Ann Radcliffe -- Moral Authorship and Authority: Fanny Burney.

• Describes the entry of women into literature as a profession. Looks at over a century of women's writings, from Behn to mary Wollstonecraft. 

Ämnesord

Women in literature.  (LCSH)

English fiction  -- Women authors -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

English fiction  -- 18th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

English fiction  -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Women and literature  -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. (LCSH)

Women and literature  -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century. (LCSH)

English fiction.  (fast)

Women and literature.  (fast)

Women in literature.  (fast)

Englisch  (gnd)

Frauenliteratur  (gnd)

English fiction  -- Early modern. (fast)

English fiction  -- Women authors. (fast)

Great Britain.  (fast)

Englisch.  (swd)

Geschichte 1660-1800.  (swd)

1500-1799  (fast)

Genre

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

History.  (fast)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

English fiction 18th century History and criticism

English fiction Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism

English fiction Women authors History and criticism

Geschichte 1660-1800

Women and literature Great Britain History 17th century

Women and literature Great Britain History 18th century

Women in literature

Klassifikation

PR858.W6 (LCC)

823.009/9287 (DDC)

HK 1071 (rvk)

17.87 (bcl)

18.05 (bcl)