Bluestockings displayed : portraiture, performance and patronage, 1730-1830 /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Description:	xv, 309 pages ; 26 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	English literature -- Women authors -- 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. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9896723

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Other authors / contributors:	Eger, Elizabeth, editor of compilation.
ISBN:	9780521768801 (hardback) 0521768802 (hardback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Part I. Portraits
1. Romantic bluestockings: from muses to matrons
2. 'To dazzle let the vain design': Alexander Pope's portrait gallery, or, the impossibility of brilliant women
3. Virtue, patriotism and female scholarship in bluestocking portraiture
4. Anne Seymour Damer: a sculptor of 'republican perfection'
5. The blues gone grey: portraits of bluestocking women in old age
Part II. Performance
6. Sacred love: Eliza Linley's voice
7. The learned female soprano
8. Roles and role models: Montagu, Siddons, Lady Macbeth
9. Hester Thrale: 'what trace of the wit?'
Part III. Patronage and Networks
10. Reading practices in Elizabeth Montagu's epistolary network of the 1750s
11. The queen of the blues, the bluestocking queen, and bluestocking masculinity
12. Luck be a lady: patronage and professionalism for women writers in the 1790s

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