LEADER 04393nam 22007212 450 001 9910786789903321 005 20151005020622.0 010 $a1-316-15300-2 010 $a1-316-15349-5 010 $a1-316-15410-6 010 $a1-316-15335-5 010 $a0-511-66742-6 010 $a1-316-15435-1 010 $a1-316-15360-6 010 $a1-316-15385-1 010 $a1-316-15460-2 035 $a(CKB)3710000000202117 035 $a(EBL)1744018 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001261530 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12531365 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001261530 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11206813 035 $a(PQKB)11653147 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511667428 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1744018 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1744018 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10896844 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL637979 035 $a(OCoLC)884280054 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000202117 100 $a20091222d2013|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aBluestockings displayed $eportraiture, performance and patronage, 1730-1830 /$fedited by Elizabeth Eger$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 309 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-316-61972-9 311 $a0-521-76880-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aRomantic bluestockings: from muses to matrons / Anne Mellor -- 'To dazzle let the vain design': Alexander Pope's portrait gallery; or, the Impossibility of brilliant women / Emma Clery -- Virtue, patriotism and female scholarship in bluestocking portraiture / Clare Barlow -- Anne Seymour Damer: a sculptor of 'Republican perfection' / Alison Yarrington -- The blues gone grey: portraits of bluestocking women in old age / Devoney Looser -- Sacred love: Eliza Linley's voice / Joseph Roach -- The learned female soprano / Susan Staves -- Roles and role models: Montagu, Siddons, Lady Macbeth / Shearer West -- Hester Thrale: 'what trace of the wit' / Felicity A. Nussbaum -- Reading practices in Elizabeth Montagu's epistolary network of the 1750s / Markman Ellis -- The queen of the blues, the Bluestocking Queen, and bluestocking masculinity / Clarissa Campbell-Orr -- Luck be a lady: patronage and professionalism for women writers in the 1790s / Harriet Guest. 330 $aThe conversation parties of the bluestockings, held to debate contemporary ideas in eighteenth-century Britain, were vital in encouraging female artistic achievement. The bluestockings promoted links between learning and virtue in the public imagination, inventing a new kind of informal sociability that combined the life of the senses with that of the mind. This collection of essays, by leading scholars in the fields of literature, history and art history, provides an interdisciplinary treatment of bluestocking culture in eighteenth-century Britain. It is the first academic volume to concentrate on the rich visual and material culture that surrounded and supported the bluestocking project, from formal portraits and sculptures to commercially reproduced prints. By the early twentieth century, the term 'bluestocking' came to signify a dull and dowdy intellectual woman, but the original bluestockings inhabited a world in which brilliance was valued at every level and women were encouraged to shine and even dazzle. 606 $aEnglish literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen intellectuals$zGreat Britain 606 $aLiterary patrons$zGreat Britain 615 0$aEnglish literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen intellectuals 615 0$aLiterary patrons 676 $a820.9/928709033 702 $aEger$b Elizabeth 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786789903321 996 $aBluestockings displayed$93762336 997 $aUNINA