This book brings to the foreground the largely forgotten “Fancy” of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and follows its traces as they extend into the nineteenth and twentieth. Trivialized for its flightiness and femininity, Fancy nonetheless provided seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women writers such as Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, Eliza Haywood, and Anna Barbauld a mode of vision that could detect flaws in the Enlightenment’s patriarchal systems and glimpse new, female-authored worlds and genres. In carving out unreal, fanciful spaces within the larger frame of patriarchal culture, these women writers planted Fancy—and, with it, female authorial invention—at the cornerstone of Enlightenment empirical endeavor. By finally taking Fancy seriously, this book offers an alternate genealogy of female authorship and a new framework for understanding modernity’s triumph.
| Autor: | Smyth, Maura |
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| ISBN: | 9783319494265 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Springer Nature EN |
| Veröffentlicht: | 25.07.2017 |
| Untertitel: | Authorship and Autonomy from 1611 to 1812 |
| Schlagworte: | B British and Irish Literature British literature Cultural Studies Culture Culture and Gender Early Modern/Renaissance Literature Early Modern and Renaissance Literature Eighteenth-Century Literature European Literature Gender Gender Studies Literary History Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: general Literature, Cultural and Media Studies Literature, Modern Literature, Modern—18th century Literature, Modern—19th century Literature: history & criticism Literature—History and criticism Nineteenth-Century Literature |
Maura Smyth is Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Previously, she was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows