Reconsidering the Bluestockings
Published on 13. January 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
302 pages
978-0-87328-212-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Bluestockings were learned English women and men who gathered during the second half of the eighteenth century at the London salons hosted by Elizabeth Montagu and her friend Elizabeth Vesey. The ten essays in this volume, first published in 2003, explore the Bluestockings' social, economic, and intellectual achievements, including the publication of fiction and criticism, their plans for a utopian community, their charitable enterprises, and the management of a large coal-mining concern. The Bluestockings enlarged the boundaries of what women could think, write, and do, less by overt political action than by their exemplary pursuit of intellectual improvement and their commitment to civic virtue in the context of polite sociability.
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Edition
Revised ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
California
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
9 b/w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 0 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87328-212-3 (9780873282123)
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Nicole Pohl | Betty A. Schellenberg
Reconsidering the Bluestockings
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01/2003
University of California Press
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Persons
Nicole Pohl is a lecturer at University College Northampton. She is the coeditor of Female Communities, 1600-1800: Literary Visions and Cultural Realities. Betty A. Schellenberg is Associate Professor of English at Simon Fraser University and the author of The Conversational Circle: Rereading the English Novel, 1740-1775.
Content
Introduction: A Bluestocking Historiography
The Elizabeth Robinson Montagu Collection at the Huntington Library
Biographical Sketches of Principal Bluestocking Women
A Bluestocking Bibliography
Bluestocking Feminism
Church of England Clergy and Women Writers
Clara Reeve, Provincial Bluestocking: From the Old Whigs to the Modern Liberal State
"Out rushed a female to protect the Bard": The Bluestocking Defense of Shakespeare
Elizabeth Montagu, Bluestocking Businesswoman
The Politics of Sociability: Public Dimensions of the Bluestocking Millennium
Two Versions of Community: Montagu and Scott
Subjectivity Unbound: Elizabeth Vesey as the Sylph in Bluestocking Correspondence
"Rags of Mortality": Negotiating the Body in the Bluestocking Letters
Bluestocking Sapphism and the Economics of Desire
Index
The Elizabeth Robinson Montagu Collection at the Huntington Library
Biographical Sketches of Principal Bluestocking Women
A Bluestocking Bibliography
Bluestocking Feminism
Church of England Clergy and Women Writers
Clara Reeve, Provincial Bluestocking: From the Old Whigs to the Modern Liberal State
"Out rushed a female to protect the Bard": The Bluestocking Defense of Shakespeare
Elizabeth Montagu, Bluestocking Businesswoman
The Politics of Sociability: Public Dimensions of the Bluestocking Millennium
Two Versions of Community: Montagu and Scott
Subjectivity Unbound: Elizabeth Vesey as the Sylph in Bluestocking Correspondence
"Rags of Mortality": Negotiating the Body in the Bluestocking Letters
Bluestocking Sapphism and the Economics of Desire
Index