1st Edition
Bluestockings Now! The Evolution of a Social Role
Edited By Deborah Heller
Copyright 2015
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
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Bringing together top specialists in the field, this edited volume challenges the theory that the eighteenth-century British intellectual women known as the Bluestockings were an isolated phenomenon spanning the period from the 1750s through the 1790s. On the contrary, the contributors suggest, the Bluestockings can be conceptualized as belonging to a chain of interconnected networks, taking their... Read more
Contents: Introduction, Deborah Heller; A Copernican shift: or, remapping the Bluestocking heavens, Deborah and Steven Heller; Bluestockings and the cultures of natural history, Beth Fowkes Tobin; Cosmopolitan Bluestockings, Nicole Pohl; The Sappho of Gloucestershire: Sarah Chapone and Christian feminism, Clarissa Campbell Orr; John Burrows, Bluestocking Boswell, William McCarthy; ’Thrale’s entire’: Hester Lynch Thrale and the Anchor brewery, Michael J. Franklin; Hester Thrale Piozzi, the Bas Bleu, and the theatre, Felicity A. Nussbaum; Sisters across the centuries: Hannah More and Grace Irwin, Patricia Demers; Bluestocking work: learning, literature, and lore in the onset of modernity, Gary Kelly; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Deborah Heller is Professor of English at Western New Mexico University, USA.
"In his useful survey of "bluestocking work" across the long eighteenth century in Bluestockings Now! Kelly differentiates between the Montagu circle and the lesser-known female intellectuals he brings to light by the use of a capital B for the former." - Caroline Franklin, Swansea University, Wales, UK
