Women of letters, manuscript circulation, and print afterlives in the eighteenth century : Elizabeth Rowe, Catharine Cockburn, and Elizabeth Carter /

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Author / Creator:	Bigold, Melanie Bian, 1975-
Imprint:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Description:	xvii, 291 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
Subject:	Rowe, Elizabeth Singer, -- 1674-1737 -- Correspondence. Trotter, Catharine, -- 1679-1749 -- Correspondence. Carter, Elizabeth, -- 1717-1806 -- Correspondence. Carter, Elizabeth, -- 1717-1806. Rowe, Elizabeth Singer, -- 1674-1737. Trotter, Catharine, -- 1679-1749. English letters -- History and criticism. English prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Authors, English -- 18th century -- Correspondence. Women and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century. Authors, English. English letters. English prose literature. English prose literature -- Women authors. Letters. Women and literature. England. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Records and correspondence.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8961949

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ISBN:	9781137033567 1137033568
Notes:	Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, 2007. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

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

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