Women's Literary Networks and Media Cultures in the Long Eighteenth Century

Leith Davis and Michelle Levy and Diana Solomon (Eds.)

2026
204 pages
$44.95
ISBN 9781684486205
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This pathbreaking collection features original essays by leading scholars working at the intersections of women's literary history, book history, and media cultures. Drawing on underexplored archives and innovative methodologies - from feminist bibliography to digital humanities - the contributors generate new narratives about the long eighteenth century and the centrality of gender to its literary production. Moving beyond a narrow focus on authorship, the chapters recover women as writers and readers, editors and curators, printers and book owners, scholars, preachers, and political actors. Across print, manuscript, and oral cultures, they illuminate the collaborative networks and material conditions shaping cultural production and circulation. Organized into sections on print histories, manuscript cultures, and new methodological approaches, this collection reshapes eighteenth-century studies while modeling ethically engaged archival research. Accessible and wide-ranging, it will appeal to scholars and students in literary studies, women's and gender studies, and book history alike.

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About the editors:

LEITH DAVIS is a professor of English and director of the Research Centre for Scottish Studies at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. She is author of Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland: From the 1688 Revolution to the 1745 Jacobite Rising and the author or coeditor of seven other books.

MICHELLE LEVY is professor of English at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Her most recent books are Literary Manuscript Culture in Romantic Britain and, with Betty Schellenberg, How and Why to Do Things with Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts.

DIANA SOLOMON is an associate professor of English at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. She is the author of Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater: Gender and Comedy, Performance and Print and coeditor of The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama.

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