Bluestockings: Women of Reason from Enlightenment to RomanticismThis studyargues that female networks of conversation, correspondenceand patronage formed the foundation for women's work in the 'higher' realms of Shakespeare criticism and poetry. Eger traces the transition between Enlightenment and Romantic culture, arguing for the relevance of rational argument in the history of women's writing. |
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... Catharine Macaulay , Anna Barbauld and Hannah More . Together these women formed an important network of artists and intellectuals who contributed to the central cultural transformations of their time . Women forged a sense of community ...
... Catharine Macaulay , Anna Barbauld and Hannah More . Together these women formed an important network of artists and intellectuals who contributed to the central cultural transformations of their time . Women forged a sense of community ...
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... Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren : the Revolutionary Atlantic and the Politics of Gender ( Oxford : Oxford ... Macaulay's visual iconography . 5. See Angela Rosenthal , Angelica Kauffman : Art and Sensibility ( New Haven ...
... Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren : the Revolutionary Atlantic and the Politics of Gender ( Oxford : Oxford ... Macaulay's visual iconography . 5. See Angela Rosenthal , Angelica Kauffman : Art and Sensibility ( New Haven ...
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... Catharine Macaulay , Historian ( Clarendon Press : Oxford , 1992 ) 99-102 ; Susan Wiseman , ' Catharine Macaulay as Republican and Historian ' , in Women and the Public Sphere , 1700– 1830 , eds Elizabeth Eger , Charlotte Grant , Clíona ...
... Catharine Macaulay , Historian ( Clarendon Press : Oxford , 1992 ) 99-102 ; Susan Wiseman , ' Catharine Macaulay as Republican and Historian ' , in Women and the Public Sphere , 1700– 1830 , eds Elizabeth Eger , Charlotte Grant , Clíona ...
Contents
The Bluestocking Legacy in the Romantic | 4 |
Conclusion | 57 |
Notes | 68 |
Copyright | |
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