Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, 2007. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Letter-writing, community, and virtuous exemplarity: Elizabeth Rowe's theatre of happiness -- A saint everlasting: Elizabeth Rowe and biographical exemplarity -- "The new and untrodden path": Catharine Cockburn, philosophy and the republic of letters -- "[H]ow obscure her lot": Catharine Cockburn's double afterlife -- Elizabeth Carter: "a very extraordinary phaenomenon in the republick of letters" -- Elizabeth Carter and the theatrum mundi.
Series:
Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print
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