Eighteenth-Century Women and the Arts
A major task confronting today's scholars is the reclamation from near oblivion of a multitude of works of art, literature, music, scholarship, and other creative enterprises by eighteenth-century women. This fascinating collection provides a multifaceted approach to understanding the roles played by women as both creators of and subjects within works of art in the eighteenth century.

A series of initial essays examines the biographical and historical conditions in which women of the times lived and worked. Some essays explore the attitudes of women themselves and how they perceived their roles, as well as their expectations expressed by male authors. Other essays focus on women's contributions to particular arts, notably poetry, the novel, music, and painting. A final section attends to research itself, reporting first on collaborative efforts to identify individual eighteenth-century women authors and discover trends in their writing. In addition, an alternative to the traditional scholarly methods course is provided in an example of the original research directed toward the rediscovery and understanding of the texts of Elizabeth Griffeth. This entertaining collection will foster new appreciation for the presence of women in the arts of the eighteenth century. An important contribution to women's studies, this volume is sure to be of special interest to students and scholars alike.

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Eighteenth-Century Women and the Arts
A major task confronting today's scholars is the reclamation from near oblivion of a multitude of works of art, literature, music, scholarship, and other creative enterprises by eighteenth-century women. This fascinating collection provides a multifaceted approach to understanding the roles played by women as both creators of and subjects within works of art in the eighteenth century.

A series of initial essays examines the biographical and historical conditions in which women of the times lived and worked. Some essays explore the attitudes of women themselves and how they perceived their roles, as well as their expectations expressed by male authors. Other essays focus on women's contributions to particular arts, notably poetry, the novel, music, and painting. A final section attends to research itself, reporting first on collaborative efforts to identify individual eighteenth-century women authors and discover trends in their writing. In addition, an alternative to the traditional scholarly methods course is provided in an example of the original research directed toward the rediscovery and understanding of the texts of Elizabeth Griffeth. This entertaining collection will foster new appreciation for the presence of women in the arts of the eighteenth century. An important contribution to women's studies, this volume is sure to be of special interest to students and scholars alike.

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A major task confronting today's scholars is the reclamation from near oblivion of a multitude of works of art, literature, music, scholarship, and other creative enterprises by eighteenth-century women. This fascinating collection provides a multifaceted approach to understanding the roles played by women as both creators of and subjects within works of art in the eighteenth century.

A series of initial essays examines the biographical and historical conditions in which women of the times lived and worked. Some essays explore the attitudes of women themselves and how they perceived their roles, as well as their expectations expressed by male authors. Other essays focus on women's contributions to particular arts, notably poetry, the novel, music, and painting. A final section attends to research itself, reporting first on collaborative efforts to identify individual eighteenth-century women authors and discover trends in their writing. In addition, an alternative to the traditional scholarly methods course is provided in an example of the original research directed toward the rediscovery and understanding of the texts of Elizabeth Griffeth. This entertaining collection will foster new appreciation for the presence of women in the arts of the eighteenth century. An important contribution to women's studies, this volume is sure to be of special interest to students and scholars alike.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313263644
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 11/22/1988
Series: Contributions in Women's Studies , #98
Pages: 316
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.88(d)
Lexile: 1440L (what's this?)

About the Author

FREDERICK M. KEENER is Professor of English at Hofstra University. He is the author of English Dialogues of the Dead, An Essay on Pope, The Chain of Becoming, and articles and chapters in books.

SUSAN E. LORSCH is Associate Professor of English at Hofstra University. She is the author of Where Nature Ends and articles in Film Literature Quarterly, The Dalhousie Review, and Papers on Language & Literature, among others.

Table of Contents

Preface
Enlightenment
Julie de Lespinasse: A Mirror for the Enlightenment by Dena Goodman
Gibbon versus Law: Enlightenment and Pietist Standards for Women by Lance E. Wilcox
Two Anomalous Women: Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot by Beth Kowaleski-Wallace
A Tax on Old Maids and Bachelors: Frances Brooke's Old Maid by K.J.H. Berland
Beaumarchais: A Woman's Place by Jack Undank
"For Softness She": Gender Ideology and Aesthetics in Eighteenth-Century England by Ellen Messer-Davidow
Emilie or Emile? Madame d'Epinay and the Education of Girls in Eighteenth-Century France by Ruth Plaut Weinreb
Mrs. Hannah Cowley, Playwright by Joyce E. East
Poetry
"My Want of Skill": Apologias of British Women Poets, 1660-1800 by Rebecca Gould Gibson
The Poet as Mermaid: Images of Self in Margaret Cavendish and Others by Nadine Ollman
Women Poets and the Pastoral Trap: The Case of Mary Whateley by Ann Messenger
The Novel
Pamela's Identity Sewn in Clothes by Caryn Chaden
Graffigny and Riccoboni on the Language of the Women Writer by Alice Charlotte Hogsett
Plot, Voice, and Narrative Oubli: Juliette Catesby's Twice-Told Tale by Susan S. Lanser
Defining the Educative Process: Maria Edgeworth's Belinda by Twila Yates Papay
Music and Painting
The Women Musicians of Venice by Jane L. Berdes
An English "Feminist" in the Turkish Harem: A Portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu by Joan DelPlato
William Hogarth's Moral Message: The Politics of Eighteenth-Century Middle-Class Reality by Diana George
The Letter Theme: Fragonard and the Image of Women by Peter H. Pawlowicz
Ambition, Politics, and Professionalism: Two Women Painters by Suellen Dianconoff
Biography, Criticism, Art History: Angelica Kauffman in Context by Wendy Wassyng Roworth
A Woman Artist's Legacy: The Autobiography of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun by Gita May
Educating Women in the Arts: Mme. Campan's School by J. Terrie Quintana
Research
Statistical Profile of Women Writing in English from 1660 to 1800 by Judith Phillips Stanton
Revising the Pedagogy of the Traditional Scholarly Methods Course: The Brandeis Elizabeth Griffith Collective by Susan Staves
On Editing Elizabeth Griffith's The Platonic Wife by Gordon Ruesch
Ambivalence and Writing: Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances by Susan David Bernstein
"How Nicely Circumspect Must Your Conduct Be": Double Standards in Elizabeth Griffith's The History of Lady Barton by Marla Harris
"Intruding Herself into the Chair of Criticism": Elizabeth Griffith and the Morality of Shakespeare's Drama Illustrated by Ellen Argyros
Bibliography
Index

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