Bluestockings: Women Of Reason From Enlightenment To Romanticism (palgrave Studies In The Enlightenment, Romanticism And The Cultures Of Print)
by Elizabeth Eger /
2012 / English / PDF
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Bluestockings: Women of Reason from Enlightenment to
Romanticism
Bluestockings: Women of Reason from Enlightenment to
Romanticism, now in paperback, explores the cultural history
of women's literary and intellectual activity in Britain between
1750 and 1812. Richard Samuel's painting, The Nine Living Muses
of Great Britain (1779), forms the starting point and guiding
motif of the book. Samuel depicted Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth
Griffith, Elizabeth Carter, Charlotte Lennox, Elizabeth Linley,
Angelica Kauffman, Catharine Macauley, Anna Barbauld and Hannah
More. Together these women formed an important network of artists
and intellectuals, who contributed to the central cultural
transformations of their time.
, now in paperback, explores the cultural history
of women's literary and intellectual activity in Britain between
1750 and 1812. Richard Samuel's painting, The Nine Living Muses
of Great Britain (1779), forms the starting point and guiding
motif of the book. Samuel depicted Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth
Griffith, Elizabeth Carter, Charlotte Lennox, Elizabeth Linley,
Angelica Kauffman, Catharine Macauley, Anna Barbauld and Hannah
More. Together these women formed an important network of artists
and intellectuals, who contributed to the central cultural
transformations of their time.
Women forged a sense of community through their innovative use of
patronage, conversation and correspondence. In the bluestocking
salon these arts were developed to new levels of moral
significance and provided the basis for women's involvement with
the formal literary genres of their time, including Shakespearean
criticism and poetry. This book highlights women's role in
shaping an evolving national canon of literature. It also
considers how the cultural anxiety caused by their very success
in the public sphere of letters caused a new generation of male
Romantics to displace women from their position of power.
Women forged a sense of community through their innovative use of
patronage, conversation and correspondence. In the bluestocking
salon these arts were developed to new levels of moral
significance and provided the basis for women's involvement with
the formal literary genres of their time, including Shakespearean
criticism and poetry. This book highlights women's role in
shaping an evolving national canon of literature. It also
considers how the cultural anxiety caused by their very success
in the public sphere of letters caused a new generation of male
Romantics to displace women from their position of power.
