Women of Letters, Manuscript Circulation, and Print Afterlives in the Eighteenth Century : Elizabeth Rowe, Catharine Cockburn and Elizabeth Carter (Pa

Bigold, Melanie

Palgrave Macmillan（2012/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 291 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781137033567
• DDC分類 826.6099287

Full Description

Using unpublished manuscript writings, this book reinterprets material, social, literary, philosophical and religious contexts of women's letter-writing in the long 18th century. It shows how letter-writing functions as a form of literary manuscript exchange and argues for manuscript circulation as a method of engaging with the republic of letters.

Contents

Preface Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Note on transcription Introduction Letter-writing, Community, and Virtuous Exemplarity: Elizabeth Rowe's Theatre of Happiness A Saint Everlasting: Elizabeth Rowe and Biographical Exemplarity 'The new and untrodden path': Catharine Cockburn, Philosophy and the Republic of Letters '[H]ow Obscure her Lot': Catharine Cockburn's Double Afterlife Elizabeth Carter: 'a very extraordinary Phaenomenon in the Republick of Letters' Elizabeth Carter and the Theatrum Mundi Bibliography Notes Index