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Title:

Bluestockings displayed : portraiture, performance and patronage, 1730-1830 / edited by Elizabeth Eger.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Subject:

English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Women intellectuals--Great Britain.
Literary patrons--Great Britain.
English literature.
English literature--Women authors.
Literary patrons.
Women intellectuals.
Great Britain.
1700 - 1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Other Authors:

Eger, Elizabeth, editor of compilation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Romantic bluestockings: from muses to matrons / Anne Mellor -- 'To dazzle let the vain design': Alexander Pope's portrait gallery; or, the Impossibility of brilliant women / Emma Clery -- Virtue, patriotism and female scholarship in bluestocking portraiture / Clare Barlow -- Anne Seymour Damer: a sculptor of 'Republican perfection' / Alison Yarrington -- The blues gone grey: portraits of bluestocking women in old age / Devoney Looser -- Sacred love: Eliza Linley's voice / Joseph Roach -- The learned female soprano / Susan Staves -- Roles and role models: Montagu, Siddons, Lady Macbeth / Shearer West -- Hester Thrale: 'what trace of the wit' / Felicity A. Nussbaum -- Reading practices in Elizabeth Montagu's epistolary network of the 1750s / Markman Ellis -- The queen of the blues, the Bluestocking Queen, and bluestocking masculinity / Clarissa Campbell-Orr -- Luck be a lady: patronage and professionalism for women writers in the 1790s / Harriet Guest.

ISBN:

0521768802 (hardback)
9780521768801 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)842350595

LCCN:

2013014282

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)