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.

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
      
      

SvD, May 2009

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