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Women of letters, manuscript circulation, and print afterlives = Elizabeth Rowe, Catharine Cockburn, and Elizabeth Carter /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Women of letters, manuscript circulation, and print afterlives/ Melanie Bigold.
Reminder of title:	Elizabeth Rowe, Catharine Cockburn, and Elizabeth Carter /
Author:	Bigold, Melanie Bian,
Published:	Basingame, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan, : 2013.,
Description:	1 online resource.
Notes:	Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, 2007.
Subject:	English letters - History and criticism. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137033574
ISBN:	9781137033574 (electronic bk.)

Women of letters, manuscript circulation, and print afterlives = Elizabeth Rowe, Catharine Cockburn, and Elizabeth Carter /
Bigold, Melanie Bian,1975-

Women of letters, manuscript circulation, and print afterlivesElizabeth Rowe, Catharine Cockburn, and Elizabeth Carter /[electronic resource] :Melanie Bigold. - Basingame, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan,2013. - 1 online resource.

Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"Women of Letters, Manuscript Circulation and Print Afterlives in the Eighteenth Century: Elizabeth Rowe, Catharine Cockburn and Elizabeth Carte" tells the stories of these women's writing lives: the social and literary contexts which shaped their allegiance to manuscript circulation; the histories of their successful as well as failed forays into print; and their agency and/or diffidence in regards to their public careers. At the same time, the work also broaches larger thematic issues: the degree and significance of women's involvement in the English republic of letters b7 sparticularly in relation to their relevance and engagement in contemporary debates within Christianity; the evidence for a more robust climate of manuscript circulation in the long eighteenth century; and reception history b7 sspecifically the notion of print afterlives and the critical tradition.

ISBN: 9781137033574 (electronic bk.)

Source: 602919Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Personal Names:

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Rowe, Elizabeth Singer,
1674-1737--Correspondence.Subjects--Topical Terms:

578338
English letters
--History and criticism.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR915 / .B55 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 826/.6099287

Women of letters, manuscript circulation, and print afterlives = Elizabeth Rowe, Catharine Cockburn, and Elizabeth Carter /
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