Bluestocking Feminism, Volume 2

Bluestocking Feminism, Volume 2
Author: Gary Kelly
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2024-10-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040248721

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
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2013-01-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137033576

Using unpublished manuscript writings, this book reinterprets material, social, literary, philosophical and religious contexts of women's letter-writing in the long 18th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
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2012
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0199699372

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.