The Circuit of Apollo
Eighteenth-Century Women's Tributes to Women
Published on 1. May 2019
Book
Hardback
244 pages
978-1-64453-003-0 (ISBN)
Description
Written by a combination of established scholars and new critics in the field, the essays collected in Circuit of Apollo attest to the vital practice of commemorating women's artistic and personal relationships. In doing so, they illuminate the complexity of female friendships and honor as well as the robust creativity and intellectual work contributed by women to culture in the long eighteenth century. Women's tributes to each other sometimes took the form of critical engagement or competition, but they always exposed the feminocentric networks of artistic, social, and material exchange women created and maintained both in and outside of London. This volume advocates for a new perspective for researching and teaching early modern women that is grounded in admiration.
Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Newark
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
3 B&W Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
555 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64453-003-0 (9781644530030)
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Persons
Laura L. Runge is Professor of English at the University of South Florida and the author of Teaching with the Norton Anthology of Literature by Women.
Jessica Cook teaches in the English department of the University of South Florida.
Jessica Cook teaches in the English department of the University of South Florida.
Content
Cover PageSeries PageTitle PageCopyright PageContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionTracing "The Circuit of Appollo": Poetic Forms and Identities in Anne Finch's Tributes to Women Poets"Those Stately Palaces": Tribute and Estates in the Work of Anne Finch and Jane BarkerMartha Fowke's Tributes to Mary, Lady Chudleigh, 1711 and 1726Eliza Haywood, Fame, and the Art of Self-Homage"Who Praises Women Does the Muses Praise": Mary Barber, Laetitia Pilkington, and Constantia Grierson's Poetic Tributes"Friendship, Better than a Muse, Inspires": Anna Letitia Barbauld Claims the Sister Arts for Female FriendshipPainting in Bright Characters: Helen Maria Williams's Poetic Tributes to Anna Seward, Elizabeth Montagu, and Marie-Jeanne RolandSapphic Circuitry: Anna Seward's Equivocal Tribute to "Llangollen's Vanished Pair""I Delight in the Success of Your Literary Labours": Friendship as Platform for ReinventionLyric Sociability: Object Lessons in Female Friendship in Amelia Opie's Occasional VersesAfterword: Researching, Writing, and Teaching Women's Tributes to WomenBibliographyContributorsIndex