Women, Gender, and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain

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Temma Berg is Graeff Professor of English Literature at Gettysburg College. Sonia Kane is editorial director of The University of Rochester Press.

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This edited collection, a tribute to eighteenth-century scholar Betty Rizzo, builds on her important work on epistolarity, print culture, and women's relationships in life and literature. Treating topics ranging from Austen's novels to the work of the current artist Sophie Calle, the book will appeal to students and scholars of eighteenth-century British literature and culture and to those interested in women's writing and women's relationships in the eighteenth century-and today-and in feminist literary history.

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Contents Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction by Temma Berg Part One: Living in the Eighteenth-Century Novel Clarissa's Darkness by Toni Bowers Brotherly Love in Eighteenth-Century Literature by Ruth Perry "Queernesses" Remembered: Male-Female Friendship in Emma by George E. Haggerty Sarah Fielding's The Governess: A Gloss on her "Books upon Education" by Sylvia Kasey Marks Part Two: Living in the Eighteenth-Century World "I have travelled so little": Jane Austen's Women on the Road by Stephanie Oppenheim Lady Minto and Her Lord by Elizabeth Lambert Sarah Scott, Elizabeth Montagu, and the Familiar Letter in Dialogue by Nicole Pohl and Betty A. Schellenberg Hidden Talents: Women Writers in the Burney Family by Lorna J. Clark "Moving upon glass": The Madness of Lady Frances Conings by Mary Margaret Stewart Part Three: Afterlives "Admiring Pope no more than is Proper": Romanticizing Alexander Pope in Late-Eighteenth-Century Booksellers' Beauties by Barbara M. Benedict Hester Lynch Piozzi's British Synonymy and the "notion of a sex in words" by Lisa Berglund Taking the Baltic Merchant: At Sea through the Archives by Temma Berg The Girl Who Raged and Her Virago of a Grandmother: A Co-Biography of Jane Cumming and Dame Helen Cumming Gordon by Frances B. Singh Remediating Interpretation: Sophie Calle Rewrites Epistolarity by Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook Afterword "A New and Braver Point to Make": Parting Thoughts on the Brilliant Career of a Master Teacher-Scholar by Beverly Schneller Contributor Biographies Index