The Women of Grub Street
Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace 1678-1730
Paula McDowell
The Women of Grub Street
Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace 1678-1730
Paula McDowell
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This text uses 17th- and 18th-century literature as a source for studying the women of Grub Street. It explores women's religio-political situation, and in particular women in the London book trade.
McDowell adds another absorbing chapter to ... feminocentric history ... fascinating ... wealth of detail.
McDowell's account of Manley's career and works is supberb and should become the indispensable starting point of any future work on this complex and fascinating woman. For that alone, The woman of Grub Street is worth our attention.
cogently argued ... very interesting and well written book.
a contribution to cultural materialism in arguing that women were involved not only in the printing and distribution of books (which is well known) but were also responsible for the subversive political ideologies that such books expressed ... her formulations are crisp and authorative.
Paula McDowell's valuable book is both rich and strange - strange in the sense that it challenges some comfortable theories (and theorists) about what happened and why ... she is splendid at breaking new ground ... For those of us who read this intelligently conceived and gracefully executed book, she will indeed succeed in reinserting the figure into our own consciousness of the period, and in alerting us to areas like the evolution of a single public sphere (if such there be) and the evolution of woman's conception of her gendered position, which deserve additional consideration and adjustment.
Cogently argued... this very interesting and well written book.
McDowell adds another absorbing chapter to ... feminocentric history ... fascinating ... wealth of detail.
McDowell's account of Manley's career and works is supberb and should become the indispensable starting point of any future work on this complex and fascinating woman. For that alone, The woman of Grub Street is worth our attention.
cogently argued ... very interesting and well written book.
a contribution to cultural materialism in arguing that women were involved not only in the printing and distribution of books (which is well known) but were also responsible for the subversive political ideologies that such books expressed ... her formulations are crisp and authorative.
Paula McDowell's valuable book is both rich and strange - strange in the sense that it challenges some comfortable theories (and theorists) about what happened and why ... she is splendid at breaking new ground ... For those of us who read this intelligently conceived and gracefully executed book, she will indeed succeed in reinserting the figure into our own consciousness of the period, and in alerting us to areas like the evolution of a single public sphere (if such there be) and the evolution of woman's conception of her gendered position, which deserve additional consideration and adjustment.
Cogently argued... this very interesting and well written book.