Catharine Trotter
Subtitle: an early modern writer in the vanguard of feminism
By: Anne Kelley.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Trotter, Catharine, 1679-1749 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century.; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century.; Feminism in literature.
Description: "The wide sweep of Kelley's study foregrounds certain critical concerns which demonstrably shaped Trotter's writing throughout, most notably the importance of rational integrity as an ethical position, and especially the significance of principled rationality as a route toward empowerment for women. Using material from Trotter's original, unpublished letters, Kelley discusses her work in the context of the period and the circle of intellectuals with whom she was in contact, such as playwrights William Congreve, George Granville, and George Farquhar, as well as philosopher John Locke." "This reading not only provides a social, political and epistemological landscape within which to situate her writing, but also fleshes out the life of the woman writer in a period which saw the burgeoning of published work by women."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-247) and index.