Reconsidering the Bluestockings / edited by Nicole Pohl & Betty A. Schellenberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pohl, Nicole, 1961-

Schellenberg, Betty A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

English literature--Women authors.

Feminism and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Feminism and literature.

Women and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Women and literature.

History.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century.

Intellectual life.

Women intellectuals--Great Britain--Biography.

Women intellectuals.

Authors, English--18th century--Biography.

Authors, English.

Women authors, English--Biography.

Women authors, English.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

San Marino, Calif. : Huntington Library, [2003]

Contents:

The Elizabeth Robinson Montagu Collection at the Huntington Library

Biographical Sketches of Principal Bluestocking Women

A Bluestocking Bibliography

Bluestocking Feminism

Church of England Clergy and Women Writers

Clara Reeve, Provincial Bluestocking: From the Old Whigs to the Modern Liberal State

"Out rushed a female to protect the Bard": The Bluestocking Defense of Shakespeare

Elizabeth Montagu, Bluestocking Businesswoman

The Politics of Sociability: Public Dimensions of the Bluestocking Millennium

Two Versions of Community: Montagu and Scott

Subjectivity Unbound: Elizabeth Vesey as the Sylph in Bluestocking Correspondence

"Rags of Mortality": Negotiating the Body in the Bluestocking Letters

Bluestocking Sapphism and the Economics of Desire.

Notes:

"Also published as volume 65, numbers 1 and 2, of the Huntington Library quarterly"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0873282027

OCLC:

52259630