Anne Dewes
Bertie Greatheed
Bluestocking Circle
British literary networks
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catherine
Catherine Talbot
chapone
circle
cultural history of science
eighteenth-century women intellectuals
elizabeth
Elizabeth Montagu
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feminist social roles
Frances Boscawen
Gabriele Piozzi
gender and modernity
George III
henry
Henry Thrale
hester
Hester Mulso
Hester Mulso Chapone
Hester Thrale Piozzi
Lady Charlotte Finch
Literary Lady
Lord Willoughby De Broke
Margaret Cavendish Bentinck
Millenium Hall
Mme Du Deffand
montagu
Natural History Collecting
Natural History Specimens
Nature Fancy Work
sarah
Sarah Chapone
talbot
thrale
Thrale Piozzi
Universal Cosmopolitan Existence
women in natural history
women's intellectual history research
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367879013
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 12 Dec 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 origin at a threshold moment in print media and communications development and extending into the present. The collection begins with a definition of the Bluestockings as a social role rather than a fixed group, a movement rather than a static phenomenon, an evolving dynamic reaching into our late-modern era. Essays include a rare transcript of a Bluestocking conversation; new, previously unknown Bluestockings brought to light for the first time; and descriptions of Bluestocking activity in the realms of natural history, arts and crafts, theatre, industry, travel, and international connections. The concluding essay argues that the Blues reimagined and practiced women’s work in ways that adapted to and altered the course of modernity, decisively putting a female imprint on economic, social, and cultural modernization. Demonstrating how the role of the Bluestocking has evolved through different historical configurations yet has structurally remained the same, the collection traces the influence of the Blues on the Romantic Period through the nineteenth century and proposes the reinvention of Bluestocking practice in the present.
Deborah Heller is Professor of English at Western New Mexico University, USA.
