Title Women of letters, manuscript circulation, and print afterlives in the eighteenth century : Elizabeth Rowe, Catharine Cockburn, and Elizabeth Carter / Melanie Bigold

Published Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Description 1 online resource Series Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print. Contents Introduction -- Letter-writing, community, and virtuous exemplarity: Elizabeth Rowe's theatre of happiness -- A saint everlasting: Elizabeth Rowe and biographical exemplarity -- "The new and untrodden path": Catharine Cockburn, philosophy and the republic of letters -- "[H]ow obscure her lot": Catharine Cockburn's double afterlife -- Elizabeth Carter: "a very extraordinary phaenomenon in the republick of letters" -- Elizabeth Carter and the theatrum mundi Summary "Women of Letters, Manuscript Circulation and Print Afterlives in the Eighteenth Century: Elizabeth Rowe, Catharine Cockburn and Elizabeth Carte" tells the stories of these women's writing lives: the social and literary contexts which shaped their allegiance to manuscript circulation; the histories of their successful as well as failed forays into print; and their agency and/or diffidence in regards to their public careers. At the same time, the work also broaches larger thematic issues: the degree and significance of women's involvement in the English republic of letters--particularly in relation to their relevance and engagement in contemporary debates within Christianity; the evidence for a more robust climate of manuscript circulation in the long eighteenth century; and reception history--specifically the notion of print afterlives and the critical tradition Notes Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, 2007 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record SUBJECT Rowe, Elizabeth Singer, 1674-1737 -- Correspondence Trotter, Catharine, 1679-1749 -- Correspondence Carter, Elizabeth, 1717-1806 -- Correspondence Carter, Elizabeth, 1717-1806 fast Rowe, Elizabeth Singer, 1674-1737 fast Trotter, Catharine, 1679-1749 fast Subject English letters -- History and criticism English prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Authors, English -- 18th century -- Correspondence Women and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century Sociology. Literature, Modern Sociology sociology. Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800. Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900. Diaries, letters & journals. LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Letters. Literature. Authors, English English letters English prose literature English prose literature -- Women authors Women and literature England Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Personal correspondence Form Electronic book LC no. 2012033372 ISBN 9781137033574 1137033576 1137033568 9781137033567 9781283946827 1283946823 1349441546 9781349441549

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