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Bluestockings: Women of Reason from Enlightenment to Romanticism(Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print)

Bluestockings: Women of Reason from Enlightenment to Romanticism(Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print)


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Bluestockings: Women of Reason from Enlightenment to Romanticism explores the cultural history of women's literary and intellectual activity in Britain between 1750 and 1812. Richard Samuel's painting, The Nine Living Muses of Great Britain (1779), forms the starting point and guiding motif of the book. Samuel depicted Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Griffith, Elizabeth Carter, Charlotte Lennox, Elizabeth Linley, Angelica Kauffman, Catharine Macauley, Anna Barbauld and Hannah More. Together these women formed an important network of artists and intellectuals, who contributed to the central cultural transformations of their time. Women forged a sense of community through their innovative use of patronage, conversation and correspondence. In the bluestocking salon these arts were developed to new levels of moral significance and provided the basis for women's involvement with the formal literary genres of their time, including Shakespearean criticism and poetry. This book highlights women's role in shaping an evolving national canon of literature. It also considers how the cultural anxiety caused by their very success in the public sphere of letters caused a new generation of male Romantics to displace women from their position of power.

Table of Contents:
Contents List of Illustrations Introduction: The Nine Living Muses of Great Britain (1779) 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 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author :
ELIZABETH EGER is Senior Lecturer in English at King's College London. She co-curated an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in 2008, 'Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings'. She has published widely in the field of eighteenth-century literary and cultural history, including work on the topics of luxury, the public sphere and actresses.

Review :
'Eger's meticulously researched discussion of the bluestockings does much to enrich our understanding of women's role in Enlightenment and Romantic culture... it will become an essential text for those studying the blustockings as well as eighteenth-century women writers.' - JoEllen DeLucia, New Books Online - 19


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780230250505
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Women of Reason from Enlightenment to Romanticism
  • ISBN-10: 0230250505
  • Publisher Date: 20 Jan 2010
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print


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