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Subject(s)

• English letters—History and criticism [Browse]
• English prose literature—18th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• English prose literature—Women authors—History and criticism [Browse]
• Rowe, Elizabeth Singer 1674-1737—Correspondence [Browse]
• Trotter, Catharine 1679-1749—Correspondence [Browse]
• Carter, Elizabeth 1717-1806—Correspondence [Browse]
• Authors, English—18th century—Correspondence [Browse]
• Women and literature—England—History—18th century [Browse]

Series

Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print [More in this series]

Notes

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

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 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.

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ISBN

• 9781137033567
• 1137033568

LCCN

2012033372

OCLC

805043545

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