Bluestocking Feminism, Volume 2
Bluestocking Feminism, Volume 2

Author: Gary Kelly

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-28

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 1040248721

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Feminist scholarship and criticism has retrieved the Bluestocking women from their marginal position in 18th-century literature. This work collects the principal writings of these women, together with a selection of their letters. Each volume is annotated and all texts are edited and reset.

Women of Letters, Manuscript Circulation, and Print Afterlives in the Eighteenth Century
Women of Letters, Manuscript Circulation, and Print Afterlives in the Eighteenth Century

Author: M. Bigold

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-01-12

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1137033576

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Using unpublished manuscript writings, this book reinterprets material, social, literary, philosophical and religious contexts of women's letter-writing in the long 18th century. It shows how letter-writing functions as a form of literary manuscript exchange and argues for manuscript circulation as a method of engaging with the republic of letters.

Madam Britannia
Madam Britannia

Author: Emma Major

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0199699372

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Using Britannia as a central figure, this book explores the neglected relationship between women, church, and nation. Drawing on a wealth of manuscript, printed, and graphic material, Emma Major argues that Britannia became established as an emblem of nation from 1688 and gained in importance over the following century.