Eighteenth-century women's writing and the 'scandalous memoir'. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Caroline Breashears.
• Other Names: Breashears, Caroline
• Contents: Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the 'Scandalous Memoir'; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Introduction: Innovations in the "Scandalous Memoir"; Notes; 2 The Business of Pleasure: The Life Writings of Lady Vane and Madame de La Touche; Contexts: A Tale of Two Daughters; Innovations: A Tale of Two Memoirists; Notes; 3 Novel Memoirs: The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle and Memoirs of a Lady of Quality; Scandalous Innovations; Novel Innovations; Notes; 4 The Family, Sex, and Scandal: Catherine Jemmat's Memoirs; "The Protection of My Friends": Women, Family, and Friendship. "Thus Thrown Upon the Wide World": Jemmat's Memoirs"They All Forsook ME!": Family in Later Memoirs; Notes; 5 "My Country is the World!" Margaret Coghlan's Revolutionary Memoirs; "Written by Herself": Coghlan's Authorship; "Those Horrible Chains": Linking Marriage, Politics, and Genres; The Significance of Coghlan's Memoirs; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer Science and Business Media Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (vii, 121 pages)
• Subjects: 820.9/9287; English prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Scandals -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English prose literature; English prose literature -- Women authors; Scandals; Social conditions; Women and literature; Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century; Great Britain; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319486550; 3319486551
• Related ISBNs: 9783319486543; 3319486543
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-118) and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.