Bluestockings Now!: The Evolution of a Social Role

ISBN-13: 9780367879013 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 254 str.

Deborah Heller

Opis

Challenging the theory that the Bluestockings spanned only the period from the 1750s through the 1790s, this collection argues for a new vision of the Bluestockings as belonging to a chain of interconnected networks that can be traced from the early eighteenth century to the present. The contributors explore the activities of the Bluestockings in a

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Deborah Heller is Professor of English at Western New Mexico University, USA.