Exploring the careers of five influential women writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century, Catherine Gallagher reveals the connections between the increasing prestige of female authorship, the economy of credit and debt, and the rise of the novel. The "nobodies" of her title are not ignored, silenced, or anonymous women. Instead, they are literal nobodies: the abstractions of authorial personae, printed books, intellectual property rights, literary.
Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1820 (New Historicism-Studies in Cultural Poetics, No. 31) ebook
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Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1820 (New Historicism-Studies in Cultural Poetics, No. 31) book
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