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Bluestockings : women of reason from Enlightenment to Romanticism
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"Bluestockings participated in the first wide-scale creation of a national culture. Exploring the tension between individual and collective models of authorship, Eger draws on visual and printed ma...
"Bluestockings participated in the first wide-scale creation of a national culture. Exploring the tension between individual and collective models of authorship, Eger draws on visual and printed materials and unpublished manuscripts to argue for the enduring relevance of rational argument in the history of womens' writing"--Provided by publisher.
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- Creator
- Elizabeth Eger
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Basingstoke, England ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 023020533X, 9786612869990, 128286999X, 1349301949, 9780230205338, 0230250505
- OCLC
- ocn671648363, ocn298778266
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-269) and index.
- Introduction : The nine living muses of Great Britain -- Living muses : the female icon -- The bluestocking salon : patronage, correspondence and conversation -- 'Female champions' : women critics of Shakespeare -- The bluestocking legacy in the Romantic era
Subjects
- English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
- Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
- Women -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
- Women intellectuals -- Great Britain.
- Literary patrons -- Great Britain.