1st Edition
The Future of Feminist Eighteenth-Century Scholarship Beyond Recovery
There is an unfortunate argument being made that feminist scholarship of eighteenth-century literary studies has fulfilled its potential in academic circles. The Future of Eighteenth-Century Feminist Scholarship: Beyond Recovery shows us otherwise. Each of the essays in this volume reaffirms the feminist principles that form the foundation of this area, then builds upon them by acknowledging the inevitable conflicts they or their subjects have faced and the contradictions they or their subjects have lived.
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Robin Runia
Table of Contents
Introduction
Robin Runia
Concepts
Chapter 1: History without Trauma: Recovering Bodily Loss in the Eighteenth Century
Cynthia Richards
Chapter 2: Lydia Still: Adolescent Wildness in Pride and Prejudice
Shawn Lisa Maurer
Intellects and Aesthetics
Chapter 3: Philosophy and/in Verse: Jane Barker’s "Farewell to Poetry" and the Anatomy of Emotion
Karen Bloom Gevirtz
Chapter 4: Beyond the Poet-Physician: Letitia Landon’s Reader-Centered Therapy
Brittany Pladek
Politics
Chapter 5: (Im)prudent Travel:The Politics of Location and the Gendered Experience in Mary Wollstonecraft’s and Mary Shelley’s Travel Writing
Stacey Kikendall
Chapter 6: Fantasies of Emancipation:
Collaborations and Contestations in The History of Mary Prince
Emily MN Kugler
Texts
Chapter 7: Recovery and Translation in Cross-Channel Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writing
Kate Parker
Chapter 8: The ‘English Sappho’s’ Daughter: Reading the Works of Maria Elizabeth Robinson
Jennifer Airey
Chapter 9: Maria Edgeworth’s Correspondence: Lock and Key
Robin Runia
Biography
Robin Runia is Assistant Professor of English at Xavier University of Louisiana
