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Bluestockings Displayed - Portraiture, Performance and Patronage, 1730-1830 (Paperback)
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Bluestockings Displayed - Portraiture, Performance and Patronage, 1730-1830 (Paperback)
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The conversation parties of the bluestockings, held to debate
contemporary ideas in eighteenth-century Britain, were vital in
encouraging female artistic achievement. The bluestockings promoted
links between learning and virtue in the public imagination,
inventing a new kind of informal sociability that combined the life
of the senses with that of the mind. This collection of essays, by
leading scholars in the fields of literature, history and art
history, provides an interdisciplinary treatment of bluestocking
culture in eighteenth-century Britain. It is the first academic
volume to concentrate on the rich visual and material culture that
surrounded and supported the bluestocking project, from formal
portraits and sculptures to commercially reproduced prints. By the
early twentieth century, the term 'bluestocking' came to signify a
dull and dowdy intellectual woman, but the original bluestockings
inhabited a world in which brilliance was valued at every level and
women were encouraged to shine and even dazzle.
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