Books written by Devoney Looser

  • Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850
    Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850

    Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine ...

  • The Making of Jane Austen
    The Making of Jane Austen

    Here are the Austen influencers, including her first English illustrator, the eccentric Ferdinand Pickering, whose sensational gothic images may be better understood through his brushes with bullying, bigamy, and an attempted matricide.

  • The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period
    The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period

    ... Clasp with fond arms, and mix their kisses sweet” – and even “icy bosoms feel the secret fire! ... Rhetorically, they link sexual liberty to natural freedom: women enjoy being outdoors and they resemble nature in their vitality and ...

  • Generations: Academic Feminists in Dialogue
    Generations: Academic Feminists in Dialogue

    The younger ones consider their foremothers naive or elitist. GENERATIONS explores these conflicts and challenges between older and younger feminist scholars.

  • The Making of Jane Austen
    The Making of Jane Austen

    The author of the latter, Mrs. T. D. Crewdson, was indeed named Jane, but the point here is that the figure Aunt Jane ... views on Austen and her review of Austen- Leigh's memoir, see Katie Halsey, Jane Austen and Her Readers, 1786–1945 ...

  • Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750–1850
    Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750–1850

    Consider this source, citing Hufeland: “More women than men become old but men, only, attain to the utmost extent of ... moving from “one extreme of ridicule and neglect to another of respect and care”; see Old Age in the Old Regime, 6.

  • British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820
    British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820

    Histories of Nothing : Romance and Femininity in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote . " Women's Writing 2.1 ( 1995 ) ... Manchester : Manchester UP , 1990 . ... American Women Historians , 1700s - 1990s : A Biographical Dictionary .

  • Generations: Academic Feminists in Dialogue
    Generations: Academic Feminists in Dialogue

    The younger ones consider their foremothers naive or elitist. GENERATIONS explores these conflicts and challenges between older and younger feminist scholars.

  • The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period
    The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period

    ... law and commerce instead of violence. John Millar's The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks – an important forebear of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels – argued that gender predated rank as the primary category of oppression, originating ...