Feminist scholarship and criticism has retrieved the Bluestocking women from their marginal position in 18th-century literature. This work collects the principal writings of these women, together with a selection of their letters. Each volume is annotated and all texts are edited and reset.
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Feminist scholarship and criticism has retrieved the Bluestocking women from their marginal position in 18th-century literature
Volume 3: Catherine Talbot and Hester (Mulso) Chapone: Catherine Talbot (1721-70); Introduction; Athenian Letters; Cleander to Orsames [XCV]; ' to Cleander [CLI]; Sappho to Cleander [CLXXVT]; Sappho to Cleander [CLXXVII]; Essay: by “Sunday”; Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week; Sunday-Saturday; Essays (selected) I, III, V, VIII, XI, XIV, V, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXII; Dialogues (selected); I, II, V; Pastorals (selected) III; A Fairy Tale; Imitations of Ossian I-III; Allegories (selected); Selected Poems; On Reading the Love Elegies; Stanzas: To the Memory of Mrs. Seeker; Song [Now Summers gaudy charms are gone]; Song [In vain fond Tyrant]; Sonnet - In ye Manner of Petrarch; Another; La Disperata; An irregular Stanza; Song [Fear not proud reason]; Selected Letters: Letter to Jemima Campbell; Letter to her Cousin, Miss—Talbot; Selections from Journal Addressed to Julia Berkeley; Letter to Mary Robinson. Hester (Mulso) Chapone (1727-1801): Introduction; Letters on Filial Obedience; Letter I -Letter III; A Matrimonial Creed; Letters on the Improvement of the Mind; Letter I -Letter X; A Letter to a New-Married Lady; Selected Poems: To Peace; Occasioned by reading Sonnets written in the Style and Manner of Spenser, by T. Edwards, Esq; 1749; To Health; An irregular Ode; On Reading Sonnets by Mrs. Charlotte Smith; Notes
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Product details

ISBN
9781138750524
Published
1999-06-01
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight
960 gr
Height
234 mm
Width
156 mm
Age
U, P, 05, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
430

Biographical note

Gary Kelly, Elizabeth Eger, Judith Hawley, Jennifer Kelly, Rhoda Zuk