Jane Barker, Exile: A Literary Career 1675-1725

by Kathryn King

Jane Barker (1652-1732), English poet and novelist, is one of the most important women writers to enter the early modern literary marketplace. This book, the first full-length study of her writing career, draws upon archival sources to reconstruct Barker's beginnings as a manuscript poet,
expose the Catholic-Jacobite underpinnings of her best-known fiction, trace her passage into print, and explore connections between her literary imaginings and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198187025
• ISBN13: 9780198187028
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.4"