Bluestockings: Women of Reason from Enlightenment to Romanticism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230205338)

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Bluestockings: Women of Reason from Enlightenment to Romanticism

$109.99

Bluestockings: Women of Reason from Enlightenment to Romanticism

$109.99
Format: Hardcover
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This studyargues that female networks of conversation, correspondenceand patronage formed the foundation for women's work in the 'higher' realms of Shakespeare criticism and poetry. Eger traces the transition between Enlightenment and Romantic culture, arguing for the relevance of rational argument in the history of women's writing.

Author: E. Eger
ISBN-10: 023020533X
ISBN-13: 9780230205338
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/20/2010
Pages: 275
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00d

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Choice 12/01/2010
By E. Eger
By E. Eger
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ELIZABETH EGER is Senior Lecturer in English at King's College London. She co-curated an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in 2008, Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings. She has published widely in the field of eighteenth-century literary and cultural history, including work on the topics of luxury, the public sphere and actresses.

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