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Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the 'Scandalous Memoir'

By: Caroline Breashears

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Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the 'Scandalous Memoir'

By: Caroline Breashears

This book contributes to the literary history of eighteenth-century women’s life writings, particularly those labeled “scandalous memoirs.” It examines how the evolution of this subgenre was shaped partially by several innovative memoirs that have received only modest critical attention. Breashears argues that Madame de La Touche’s Apologie and her friend Lady Vane’s Memoirs contributed to the crystallization of this sub-genre at mid-century, and that Lady Vane’s collaboration with Tobias Smollett in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle resulted in a brilliant experiment in the relationship between gender and genre. It demonstrates that the Memoirs of Catherine Jemmat incorporated influential new strategies for self-justification in response to changing kinship priorities, and that Margaret Coghlan’s Memoirs introduced revolutionary themes that created a hybrid: the political scandalous memoir. This book will therefore appeal to scholars interested in life writing, women’s history, genre theory, and eighteenth-century British literature.

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Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the 'Scandalous Memoir'

By: Caroline Breashears

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Other Girls to Burn

By: Caroline Crew

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Other Girls to Burn

By: Caroline Crew

Other Girls to Burn is a collection of formally inventive essays that explores the relationship between women and violence, from the Santa Barbara shooting to 13th century virgin martyrs, mixed martial arts, true crime, and rape culture. What does it mean for women to be complicit in the violence of the patriarchy? How do women navigate risk as well as revel in thrill? What does it mean to both fear and perpetuate violence? The essays in this collection are in conversation with contemporary nonfiction writers such as Maggie Nelson, Sarah Manguso and Anne Boyer. These formally inventive, lyric-leaning essays shift between cultural criticism and personal essay. The book coheres around a central motif of female mystics"--

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Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the 'Scandalous Memoir'

Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the 'Scandalous Memoir'

Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the 'Scandalous Memoir'

Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the 'Scandalous Memoir'

Other Girls to Burn

Other Girls to Burn

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