Wit, Virtue, and Emotion
Subtitle: British Women's Enlightenment Rhetoric
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780809338276
Subjects: Sociology
Description: "Author Elizabeth Tasker Davis demonstrates in this comprehensive study how wit, virtue, and fine feeling built upon each other in overlapping, gendered appeals for women's rights and capabilities in the late seventeenth to the late eighteenth century"--