ABSTRACT

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 |9 pages

Introduction

part I|42 pages

Concepts

chapter 1|18 pages

History without Trauma

Recovering Bodily Loss in the Eighteenth Century

chapter 2|22 pages

Lydia Still

Adolescent Wildness in Pride and Prejudice

part II|35 pages

Intellects and Aesthetics

chapter 3|18 pages

Philosophy and/in Verse

Jane Barker’s “Farewell to Poetry” and the Anatomy of Emotion

chapter 4|17 pages

Beyond the Poet-Physician

Letitia Landon’s Reader-Centered Therapy

part III|40 pages

Politics

chapter 5|19 pages

(Im)prudent Travel

The Politics of Location and the Gendered Experience in Mary Wollstonecraft’s and Mary Shelley’s Travel Writing

chapter 6|21 pages

Fantasies of Emancipation

Collaborations and Contestations in The History of Mary Prince

part IV|53 pages

Texts

chapter 8|16 pages

The “English Sappho’s” Daughter

Reading the Works of Maria Elizabeth Robinson

chapter 9|17 pages

Maria Edgeworth’s Correspondence

Lock and Key