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Author:

Bigold, Melanie Bian, 1975-

Title:

Women of letters, manuscript circulation, and print afterlives in the eighteenth century : Elizabeth Rowe, Catharine Cockburn, and Elizabeth Carter / Melanie Bigold.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xvii, 291 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

English letters--History and criticism.
English prose literature--18th century--History and criticism.
English prose literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Rowe, Elizabeth Singer,--1674-1737--Correspondence.
Trotter, Catharine,--1679-1749--Correspondence.
Carter, Elizabeth,--1717-1806--Correspondence.
Authors, English--18th century--Correspondence.
Women and literature--England--History--18th century.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

1137033568
9781137033567

OCLC:

(OCoLC)805043545

LCCN:

2012033372

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)