Brett Wilson

A Race of Female Patriots

Women and Public Spirit on the British Stage, 1688-1745

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Produktbeschreibung

A Race of Female Patriots is a study of tragic drama after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 that yields new insight into women's involvement in the public sphere and the political and aesthetic significance of feeling.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781611483642
• ISBN-10: 1611483646
• Artikelnr.: 34392106

Autorenporträt

Brett D. Wilson is associate professor of English at the College of William & Mary. His articles on sympathy and national feeling in eighteenth-century British drama have appeared in ELH and Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Introduction. "A female patriot? Vanity! Absurd!" Chapter 1. "How
Hard Is the Condition of Our Sex": The Female Advocate and the Subject of
Sympathy in The Fair Penitent Chapter 2. That Sex's Care: Sentimental Union
and the Common Good Chapter 3. Public Victims: Janes, Jacobites, and the
National She-Tragedy Chapter 4. "Even in the Softer Sex": Gendering
Patriotism in the Plays of James Thomson Epilogue. Circulating Power,
Public Affections, and the Re-masculinization of British Public Spirit
Works Cited