Bluestockings displayed : portraiture, performance and patronage, 1730-1830 /
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Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013. |
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Description: | xv, 309 pages ; 26 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9896723 |
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