Women writing fancy : authorship and autonomy from 1611 to 1812 /: authorship and autonomy from 1611 to 1812. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Maura Smyth.
• Authors: Smyth, Maura Josephine
• Contents: Women Writing Fancy; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Introduction: Fancy-The Untold Story of an Aesthetic Rogue; Fancy's Arrival; The Flight of Fancy; Fancy and the History of Women's Writing; Perspectives on Fancy's Flightiness; Part I Defining Modernity and Fixing Fancy; 2 Threads That Go Nowhere in The Tempest and The New Atlantis; The Fanciful Form of the Island; Fragments and Figments of The Tempest; The Fable of The New Atlantis; 3 Finding Fancy in Leviathan and Paradise Lost; Putting the Genie of Fancy Back in the Bottle; Constructing Political Artifice; Fancy in Paradise Gendered Fancies, Female Sovereignty, and How Things Might BePart II Talking Back: Fanciful 'Creatoresses' of the Novel; 4 Margaret Cavendish's Fashioning of Fancy; Enchanted Matter; Fancy's Flight from Mind to World; Room to Move and Speak; A World of One's Own; Alternate Patterns of the World; 5 Going Undercover with Aphra Behn's "Female Pen"; Agent of Illumination: The Narrator and Her Voice; Materializing Oroonoko; Idealizing Imoinda; The Female Narrator: Painter, Poet, Prophet; 6 Plotting Fancy in The New Atalantis and Fantomina; Varieties of Imagination, Polite, and Otherwise Narrative Excess in The New AtalantisPlotting Narrative "Intreague" in Fantomina; Part III Fancy's Afterlife; 7 Afterword: Fancy and the Tinctures, Tones, and Flavors of History; "Scanning Deep, " or Training a Critical View; Fancifying History; 8 Coda: The Persistence of Fancy; Bibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 295 pages)
• Subjects: 820.992870903; Literature; Women authors, English -- History -- 17th century; Women authors, English -- History -- 18th century; English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature -- Women authors; Women authors, English; Literary Criticism -- General; Literary Criticism -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Social Science -- Gender Studies; Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; Cultural studies; Literary studies: general; British literature; Culture; Gender; Literature, Modern; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Electronic books; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319494272; 3319494279; 3319494260; 9783319494265
• Related ISBNs: 9783319494265
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-286) and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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