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Bluestockings displayed : portraiture, performance and patronage, 1730-1830 /

The first academic and interdisciplinary volume exploring bluestocking portraiture, performance and patronage in eighteenth-century Britain, opening vistas for future scholarship.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Eger, Elizabeth (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Romantic bluestockings: from muses to matrons / Anne Mellor
  • 'To dazzle let the vain design': Alexander Pope's portrait gallery; or, the Impossibility of brilliant women / Emma Clery
  • Virtue, patriotism and female scholarship in bluestocking portraiture / Clare Barlow
  • Anne Seymour Damer: a sculptor of 'Republican perfection' / Alison Yarrington
  • The blues gone grey: portraits of bluestocking women in old age / Devoney Looser
  • Sacred love: Eliza Linley's voice / Joseph Roach
  • The learned female soprano / Susan Staves
  • Roles and role models: Montagu, Siddons, Lady Macbeth / Shearer West
  • Hester Thrale: 'what trace of the wit' / Felicity A. Nussbaum
  • Reading practices in Elizabeth Montagu's epistolary network of the 1750s / Markman Ellis
  • The queen of the blues, the Bluestocking Queen, and bluestocking masculinity / Clarissa Campbell-Orr
  • Luck be a lady: patronage and professionalism for women writers in the 1790s / Harriet Guest.