Economic imperatives for women's writing in early modern Europe / edited by Carme Font Paz and Nina Geerdink.
Material type: TextSeries: Women writers in history ; volume 2Publisher: Boston : Brill, [2018]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- online resource
- 9789004383029
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- European literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- Women authors, European -- Early modern, 1500-1700
- Women authors, European -- Economic conditions
- Women and literature -- Europe -- History -- Early modern, 1500-1700
- Authorship -- Economic aspects -- Europe -- History -- Early modern, 1500-1700
- Authors and patrons -- History -- Early modern, 1500-1700
- Literature publishing -- Europe -- History -- Early modern, 1500-1700
- �Ecrivaines europ�eennes -- Conditions �economiques
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary
- LITERARY CRITICISM / General
- European literature -- Women authors
- Europe
- 1500-1700
- 809/.89287 23
- PN471 .E25 2018eb
"The study of women's writing has become a lively field that has partaken in and given rise to many new directions in the broader field of literary studies"-- Provided by publisher
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: women, professionalisation, and patronage / Carme Font Paz and Nina Geerdink -- Women authors' reputation and its relationship to money earned: some early French writers as examples / Suzan van Dijk -- Words for sale: early modern Spanish women's literary economy / Nieves Baranda -- Fighting for her profession: Dorothe's Engelbretsdatter's discourse of self-defence / Marie Nedregotten S�rb� -- Writing for patronage or patronage for writing: two case studies in seventeenth-century and post-restoration women's poetry in Britain / Carme Font Paz -- Possibilities of patronage: the Dutch poet Elisabeth Hoofman and her German patrons / Nina Geerdink -- Between patronage and professional writing: the situation of eighteenth century women of letters in Venice: the example of Luisa Bergalli Gozzi / Rotraud von Kulessa -- From Queen's librarian to voice of the Neapolitan Republic: Eleonora de Fonseca Pimentel / Irene Zanini-Cordi -- "[S]ome employment in the translating way": economic imperatives in Charlotte Lennox's career as a translator / Marianna D'Ezio -- Beating the odds: Sophie Albrecht (1756-1840), a successful woman writer and publisher in eighteenth-century Germany / Berit C.R. Royer.
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