Bluestocking Feminism: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-90

by Elizabeth Eger

Eighteenth-century Bluestocking women were, on the whole, an upper-class and politically and socially conservative group. For this reason, their writings have been largely neglected in feminist and literary history. In recent decades, however, feminist scholarship and criticism has retrieved the Bluestocking women from their marginal position in eighteenth-century literature. This work collects the principal writings of these women, together with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1851965149
• ISBN13: 9781851965144
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 2424 Pages