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Isobel Grundy |
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Womersley, David, Times Literary Supplement: "These works, their brittle surface enriched by craquelure and lit by intelligence, certainly demand an unusually poised and alert readership; their qualities will be lost on all but the shrewd and flexible foes of fanaticism." |
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Format: Hardcover, 276
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand (May 23, 1996)
Measurements: 9"(h) x 5.75"(w) x 1"(d), 1.15 lbs.
ISBN: 9780198183198 |
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) is one of the most important women writers between Aphra Behn and Jane Austen, and one of her period's most provocative and entertaining writers of either sex. The narratives in this volume, with the exception of one juvenile piece, have never been printed before. They show the author experimenting in the genres of fiction and autobiography, more influenced by French models than by English, but always working experimentally against the grain of her various traditions. Besides page-turning narrative, these works offer the rare opportunity of a completely fresh taken on literary movements, cross-cultural relations, gender ideologies, and other literary debates of the early eighteenth century. Our existing picture of what was once possible in literature and what was possible for women at this time cannot remain unchanged once these writings appear. |
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