1st Edition

The Future of Feminist Eighteenth-Century Scholarship Beyond Recovery

Edited By Robin Runia Copyright 2018
    200 Pages
    by Routledge

    200 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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