Title: Wit, Virtue, and Emotion
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"--
Subjects: Sociology, Women, Social conditions, Feminism and rhetoric, Language, English language, Rhetoric, History, English wit and humor, Virtue in literature, Emotions in literature, Enlightenment, Intellectual life