Author: Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Elizabeth Montagu, the Queen of the Blue-stockings, Her Correspondence from 1720 to 1761
Author: Elizabeth Robinson MontaguPublisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Elizabeth Montagu, the Queen of the Bluestockings
Author: Elizabeth Robinson MontaguPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Honourable Rebel
Author: Elizabeth Susan MontaguPublisher:
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Category : Aristocracy (Social class)
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Elizabeth Montagu, the Queen of the Bluestockings
Author: Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Elizabeth Montagu, the queen of the bluestockings
Author: Elizabeth MontaguThe Letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu: Containing her letters from an early age to the age of twenty-three. 2 v
Author: Elizabeth Robinson MontaguPublisher:
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Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear
Author: Elizabeth MontaguPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108083919
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
This 1769 work is a spirited defence of Shakespeare against criticism claiming that he was inferior to modern French dramatists.
Bluestockings Now!
Author: Deborah HellerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317173589
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Bringing together top specialists in the field, this edited volume challenges the theory that the eighteenth-century British intellectual women known as the Bluestockings were an isolated phenomenon spanning the period from the 1750s through the 1790s. On the contrary, the contributors suggest, the Bluestockings can be conceptualized as belonging to a chain of interconnected networks, taking their origin at a threshold moment in print media and communications development and extending into the present. The collection begins with a definition of the Bluestockings as a social role rather than a fixed group, a movement rather than a static phenomenon, an evolving dynamic reaching into our late-modern era. Essays include a rare transcript of a Bluestocking conversation; new, previously unknown Bluestockings brought to light for the first time; and descriptions of Bluestocking activity in the realms of natural history, arts and crafts, theatre, industry, travel, and international connections. The concluding essay argues that the Blues reimagined and practiced women’s work in ways that adapted to and altered the course of modernity, decisively putting a female imprint on economic, social, and cultural modernization. Demonstrating how the role of the Bluestocking has evolved through different historical configurations yet has structurally remained the same, the collection traces the influence of the Blues on the Romantic Period through the nineteenth century and proposes the reinvention of Bluestocking practice in the present.
Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century
Author: Alessa JohnsPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252028410
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
No human society has ever been perfect, a fact that has led thinkers as far back as Plato and St. Augustine to conceive of utopias both as a fanciful means of escape from an imperfect reality and as a useful tool with which to design improvements upon it. The most studied utopias have been proposed by men, but during the eighteenth century a group of reform-oriented female novelists put forth a series of work that expressed their views of, and their reservations about, ideal societies. In Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century, Alessa Johns examines the utopian communities envisaged by Mary Astell, Sarah Fielding, Mary Hamilton, Sarah Scott, and other writers from Britain and continental Europe, uncovering the ways in which they resembled--and departed from--traditional utopias. Johns demonstrates that while traditional visions tended to look back to absolutist models, women's utopias quickly incorporated emerging liberal ideas that allowed far more room for personal initiative and gave agency to groups that were not culturally dominant, such as the female writers themselves. Women's utopias, Johns argues, were reproductive in nature. They had the potential to reimagine and perpetuate themselves.
Political Affairs of the Heart
Author: Linda Van Netten BlimkePublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1684484057
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
By examining four sentimental travelogues written by British women travelers during the American and French Revolutions, Political Affairs of the Heart argues that this genre, by combining eyewitness authority with the language of sensibility, constitutes a significant site of women's engagement in national and gender politics.