Women, Texts, and Histories: 1575-1760

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgements xi
• Introduction: Minding the Story 1
• 1 - Why the Lady's Eyes Are Nothing like the Sun 13
• 2 - 'Yet Tell Me Some Such Fiction': Lady Mary Wroth's Urania and the 'Femininity' of Romance 39
• 3 - Material Girls: the Seventeenth-Century Woman Debate 69
• 4 - Blazing Worlds: Seventeenth-Century Women's Utopian Writing 102
• 5 - 'My Brain the Stage': Margaret Cavendish and the Fantasy of Female Performance 134
• 6 - 'the Person I Am, or What They Made Me to Be': the Construction of the Feminine Subject in the Autobiographies of Mary Carleton 164
• 7 - Whores' Rhetoric and the Maps of Love: Constructing the Feminine in Restoration Erotica 195
• 8 - Manl(E)Y Forms: Sex and the Female Satirist 217
• 9 - Speaking of Women: Scandal and the Law in the Mid-Eighteenth Century 242
• Bibliography 271
• Index 288