| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 309 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Romantic bluestockings: from muses to matrons / Anne Mellor -- 'To dazzle let the vain design': Alexander Pope's portrait gallery; or, the Impossibility of brilliant women / Emma Clery -- Virtue, patriotism and female scholarship in bluestocking portraiture / Clare Barlow -- Anne Seymour Damer: a sculptor of 'Republican perfection' / Alison Yarrington -- The blues gone grey: portraits of bluestocking women in old age / Devoney Looser -- Sacred love: Eliza Linley's voice / Joseph Roach -- The learned female soprano / Susan Staves -- Roles and role models: Montagu, Siddons, Lady Macbeth / Shearer West -- Hester Thrale: 'what trace of the wit' / Felicity A. Nussbaum -- Reading practices in Elizabeth Montagu's epistolary network of the 1750s / Markman Ellis -- The queen of the blues, the Bluestocking Queen, and bluestocking masculinity / Clarissa Campbell-Orr -- Luck be a lady: patronage and professionalism for women writers in the 1790s / Harriet Guest |
| Summary |
The first academic and interdisciplinary volume exploring bluestocking portraiture, performance and patronage in eighteenth-century Britain, opening vistas for future scholarship |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Women intellectuals -- Great Britain
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Literary patrons -- Great Britain
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature
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English literature -- Women authors
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Literary patrons
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Women intellectuals
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Eger, Elizabeth, editor
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| ISBN |
9781316154601 |
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1316154602 |
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9780511667428 |
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0511667426 |
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9781316153857 |
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1316153851 |
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