A race of female patriots
Subtitle: women and public spirit on the British stage, 1688-1745
By: Brett D. Wilson
Series: Transits literature, thought & culture
Publisher: Bucknell University Press, co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781611483642; 9781611483659
Subjects: Women in the theater; History; Theater; English drama; History and criticism; English Political plays; Patriotism in literature; Women and literature; Theater audiences; Women in literature
Notes: Introduction: "A female patriot? vanity! absurd!" -- "How hard is the condition of our sex"?: the female advocate and the subject of sympathy in The fair penitent -- That sex's care: sentimental union and the common good -- Public victims: Janes, Jacobites, and the national she-tragedy -- "Even in the softer sex": gendering patriotism in the plays of James Thomson -- Epilogue: circulating power, public affections, and the re-masculinization of British public spirit.

Includes bibliographical references and index.