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Women's periodicals and print culture in Britain, 1690-1820s : the long eighteenth century /
"This innovative volume presents for the first time collective expertise on women's magazines and periodicals of the long eighteenth century. While this period witnessed the birth of modern periodical culture and its ability to shape aspects of society from the popular to the political, mo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Edinburgh history of women's periodical culture in Britain.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Women and the birth of the periodical culture
- Part I. Learning for the ladies
- Periodicals and the problems of women's learning
- Discontinuous reading and miscellaneous instruction for British ladies
- Constructing women's history in the Lady's Museum
- Vindications and reflections: The Lady's Magazine during the Revolution controversy (1789-1795)
- Part II. The poetics of periodicals
- Dunton and Singer after the Athenian Mercury: two plots of platonic love
- Women's poetry in the magazines
- 'A lasting wreath of various hue': Hannah Cowley, the Della Cruscan affair, and the medium of the periodical poem
- The Lady's Poetical Magazine and the fashioning of women's literary space
- Part III. Periodicals nationally and internationally
- Protesting the exclusivity of the public sphere: Dalariver Manley's Examiner
- 'A moral paper! And how do you expect to get money by it?': Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and journalism
- Eliza Haywood's periodicals in wartime
- German women's writing in British magazines, 1760-1820
- Travel writing and meditation in the Lady's Magazine: Charting 'the meridian of female reading'
- Part IV. Print media and print culture
- '[L]et a girl read': periodicals and women's literary canon formation
- Reviewing women: women reviewers on women novelists
- Reviewing feminity: gender and genre in the Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century periodical press
- 'Full of pretty stories': Fiction in the Lady's Magazine (1770-1832)
- 'This Lady is descended from a good family': Women and biography in British magazines, 1770-1798
- Suitable reading material: Fandom and female pleasure in women's engagement with romantic periodicals
- Part V. Theorising the periodical in text and practice
- The Ladies Mercury
- John Dunton's Ladies Mercury and the Eighteenth-Century female subject
- Frances Brooke, editor, and the making of the Old Maid (1755-1756)
- Eyes that eagerly 'bear the steady ray of reason': Eidolon as activist in Charlotte Lennox's Lady's Museum
- '[T]o cherish Female ingenuity and to conduce to Female improvement': The birth of the woman's magazine
- The woman behind the man behind the World: Mary Wells and the feminisation of the Late Eighteenth-Century newspaper
- Part VI: Fashion, theatre, and celebrity
- Advertising women: gendor and the vendor in the print culture of the medical marketplace, 1660-1830
- Theatrical, periodical, authorial: Frances Brooke's Old Maid (1755-1756)
- Fast fashion: Style, text, and image in Late Eighteenth-Century women's periodicals
- Magazine miniatures: potraits of actresses, princesses, and queens in Late Eighteenth-Century periodicals
- Fashioning consumers: Ackerman's Repository of Arts and the cultivation of the female consumer.