Women of Letters, Manuscript Circulation, and Print Afterlives in the Eighteenth Century [electronic resource] : Elizabeth Rowe, Catharine Cockburn and Elizabeth Carter /
Bigold, M.author.
Using unpublished manuscript writings, this book reinterprets material, social, literary, philosophical and religious contexts of women's letter-writing in the long 18th century. It shows how letter-writing functions as a form of literary manuscript exchange and argues for manuscript circulation as a method of engaging with the republic of letters.
Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Using unpublished manuscript writings, this book reinterprets material, social, literary, philosophical and religious contexts of women's letter-writing in the long 18th century. It shows how letter-writing functions as a form of literary manuscript exchange and argues for manuscript circulation as a method of engaging with the republic of letters.
Rowe, Elizabeth Singer, 1674-1737
Trotter, Catharine, 1679-1749
Carter, Elizabeth, 1717-1806
British literature.
Literature, Modern-18th century.
Sociology.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
British and Irish Literature.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.
Gender Studies.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.