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Writing through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century

Age, Gender, and Work

By: Chantel Lavoie

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Writing through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century

Age, Gender, and Work

By: Chantel Lavoie

Writing through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century explores how boyhood was constructed in different creative spaces that reflected the lived experience of young boys through the long eighteenth century—not simply in children’s literature but in novels, poetry, medical advice, criminal broadsides, and automaton exhibitions. The chapters encompass such rituals as breeching, learning to read and write, and going to school. They also consider the lives of boys such as chimney sweeps and convicted criminals, whose bodily labor was considered their only value and who often did not live beyond boyhood. Defined by a variety of tasks, expectations, and objectifications, boys—real, imagined, and sometimes both—were subject to the control of their elders and were used as tools in the cause of civil society, commerce, and empire. This book argues that boys in the long eighteenth century constituted a particular kind of currency, both valuable and expendable—valuable because of gender, expendable because of youth.

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Rutgers University Press

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1644533219

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9781644533215

Collecting Women

Poetry and Lives, 1700-1780

By: Chantel M. Lavoie

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Collecting Women

Poetry and Lives, 1700-1780

By: Chantel M. Lavoie

This book addresses the place of women writers in anthologies and other literary collections in eighteenth-century England. It explores and contextualizes the ways in which two different kinds of printed material--poetic miscellanies and biographical collections--complemented one another in defining expectations about the woman writer. Far more than the single-authored text, it was the collection in one form or another that invested poems and their authors with authority. By attending to this fascinating cultural context, Chantel Lavoie explores how women poets were placed posthumously in the world of eighteenth-century English letters. Investigating the lives and works of four well known poets--Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn, Anne Finch, and Elizabeth Rowe--Lavoie illuminates the way in which celebrated women were collected alongside their poetry, the effect of collocation on individual reputations, and the intersection between bibliography and biography as female poets themselves became curiosities. In so doing, Collecting Women contributes to the understanding of the intersection of cultural history, canon formation, and literary collecting in eighteenth-century England.

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Bucknell University Press

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0838757499

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9780838757499

Collecting Women

Poetry and Lives, 1700-1780

By: Chantel M. Lavoie

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Poetry and Lives, 1700-1780

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Bucknell University Press

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Writing through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century

Writing through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century

Collecting Women

Collecting Women

Collecting Women

Collecting Women

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