Bluestockings
Subtitle: women of reason from Enlightenment to romanticism
By: Elizabeth Eger.
Series: Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780230205338
Subjects: English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Women -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century; Women intellectuals -- Great Britain; Literary patrons -- Great Britain
Description: "Bluestockings participated in the first wide-scale creation of a national culture. Exploring the tension between individual and collective models of authorship, Eger draws on visual and printed materials and unpublished manuscripts to argue for the enduring relevance of rational argument in the history of womens' writing"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: ContentsIntroduction Living Muses: The cultural significance of the female iconCircles of learning in the bluestocking salon: patronage, correspondence and conversation'Female champions': The Shakespeare criticism of Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Griffith and Charlotte LennoxThe rational muse: the bluestocking legacy in the Romantic eraBibliographyIndex.