Writing the history of women's writing

Suzan van Dijk, Lia van Gemert, Sheila Ottway (eds.),
Writing the history of women’s writing. Toward an international approach.
Amsterdam: K.N.A.W., 2001, 279 p.

ISBN 90 6984 293 9

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Suzan van Dijk

• Foreword IX
  
  
  

I The history of women's writing

Riet Schenkeveld-van der Dussen

• Met en zonder lauwerkrans: crowned and uncrowned women writers in the Netherlands during the early modern period (1550-1850) 3
  
  

Piet Couttenier

• Women writing in 19th-century Flanders 21
  
  
  • • Anna Bijns (1493-1575
      
    • Door d'abuiselijk wonder... / Through wondrous folly ... 29
      
      

Marijke Spies

• Art of nature? Womanly ways to literature 35
  
  

Anna Fabri

• Authoress or romantic heroine: the problem of plurality in the Hungarian literary world around 1800 47
  
  

Nicole Boursier

• The feminine voice in early French novel 57
  
  

Moira Ferguson

• Women and the British Empire in the 18th century 67
  
  
  • • Lucretia Wilhelmina van Merken (1721-1789
      
    • Germanicus (fragment) 75
      
      
      

II Writing the history of women's writing

Suzan van Dijk

• Early historiography of Dutch and French women's literature 81
  
  

Maria-Theresia Leuker

• "Beautiful souls" and "Bluestockings": the reception of 17th- and 18th-century women writers in Dutch literature of the 19th century 95
  
  

Maaike Meijer

• Gender effects of male literary discourse: the case of Helene Swarth
  
  
  • • Margareta Geertruid van der Werken (1734-1780)
      
    • De kleine Grandisson / Le petit Grandisson 121
      
      

Petra Broomans

• In the name of God and the Father: Scandinavian women's literary history from a meta-literary historical point of view 125
  
  

Cornelia Niekus Moore

• "Ein schoenes Ungeheuer": German women authors from 1550-1850 135
  
  

Christine Plante

• An anthology of 19th-century French women poets
  
  
  • • Betje Wolff (1738-1804) & Aagje Deken (1741-1804)
      
    • Historie van Mejuffrouw Sara Burgerhart / Histoire de Mademoiselle Sara Burgerhart 155
      
      
      

III Broader approaches in women's literary historiography

Louise Schleiner

• Voicing and the subject: early modern women's strategies within discourse domains 163
  
  

Mary Trouille

• "La femme mal mariee": Madame d'Epinay's challenge to Julie and Emilie 171
  
  

Kate Flint

• Women readers romancing the South Seas: Mary Russell Mitford's Christina 183
  
  
  • • Johanna Desideria Berchmans (1811-1890)
      
    • Drij roosjes / Drei Roeschen 191
      
      

Geraldine Sheridan

• Woman in the book trade in the 18th century: an untold story 197
  
  

Paul Hoftijzer

• Women in the early modern Dutch book trade 211
  
  
  • • Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint (1812-1886
      
    • Majoor Frans / Major Frank 223
      
      

Lia van Gemert

• The weight of a laurel-crown: the future of Dutch early modern women writers 227
  
  

Riet Schenkeveld-van der Dussen

• Met en zonder lauwerkrans in an international perspective 239
  
  

Joep Leerssen

• Women authors and literary history 251
  
  
  

SvD, June 2013

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