Feminist Comedy
Women Playwrights of London
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Objects of Liberty
British Women Writers and Revolutionary Souvenirs
A Genealogy of the Gentleman
Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century
Fictions of Pleasure
The Putain Memoirs of Prerevolutionary France
This book identifies the prostitute memoir as a subgenre of the eighteenth-century French libertine novel and explores how the fictional utopia the narrators of these salacious pseudo-memoirs undermine the patriarchal hierarchies of the Ancien Régime and propose a social model in which women form networks of mutual support to achieve wealth and personal satisfaction.
The Visionary Queen
Justice, Reform, and the Labyrinth in Marguerite de Navarre
The Visionary Queen argues that sixteenth-century noblewoman Marguerite de Navarre is more than a French author, political figure, or non-schismatic religious reformer. She is a visionary, as demonstrated in her efforts to better society, especially for women, in her literary writings (notably the Heptaméron), in her writings’ responses to her male contemporaries, and in the symbolism of the labyrinth reflected in her life and works.
The Circuit of Apollo
Eighteenth-Century Women’s Tributes to Women
Eliza Fenwick
Early Modern Feminist
This captivating biography traces the life of Eliza Fenwick, an extraordinary woman who paved her own unique path throughout the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as she made her way from country to country as writer, teacher, and school owner.