The Circuit of Apollo : : Eighteenth-Century Women’s Tributes to Women /

The Circuit of Apollo : : Eighteenth-Century Women’s Tributes to Women / / ed. by Jessica Cook, Laura Runge.

Written by a combination of established scholars and new critics in the field, the essays collected in Circuit of Apollo attest to the vital practice of commemorating women’s artistic and personal relationships. In doing so, they illuminate the complexity of female friendships and honor as well as t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
HerausgeberIn:
Cook, Jessica,
Runge, Laura,
MitwirkendeR:
Duquette, Natasha,
Gerrard, Christine,
Ingrassia, Catherine,
Jordan, Nicolle,
King, Kathryn R.,
King, Shelley,
Kittredge, Katharine,
Lanser, Susan S.,
Schellenberg, Betty A.,
Tallon, Laura,
Thomas Kairoff, Claudia,
TeilnehmendeR:
Duquette, Natasha.
Gerrard, Christine.
Ingrassia, Catherine.
Jordan, Nicolle.
Kairoff, Claudia Thomas.
King, Kathryn R.
King, Shelley.
Kittredge, Katharine.
Lanser, Susan S.
Schellenberg, Betty A.
Tallon, Laura.
Place / Publishing House:Newark : : University of Delaware Press, , [2022]
©2019
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Early Modern Feminisms
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Physical Description:1 online resource (233 p.) :; 3 B&W Illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Tracing “The Circuit of Appollo”: Poetic Forms and Identities in Anne Finch’s Tributes to Women Poets
  • “Those Stately Palaces”: Tribute and Estates in the Work of Anne Finch and Jane Barker
  • Martha Fowke’s Tributes to Mary, Lady Chudleigh, 1711 and 1726
  • Eliza Haywood, Fame, and the Art of Self-Homage
  • “Who Praises Women Does the Muses Praise”: Mary Barber, Laetitia Pilkington, and Constantia Grierson’s Poetic Tributes
  • “Friendship, Better than a Muse, Inspires”: Anna Letitia Barbauld Claims the Sister Arts for Female Friendship
  • Painting in Bright Characters: Helen Maria Williams’s Poetic Tributes to Anna Seward, Elizabeth Montagu, and Marie-Jeanne Roland
  • Sapphic Circuitry: Anna Seward’s Equivocal Tribute to “Llangollen’s Vanished Pair”
  • “I Delight in the Success of Your Literary Labours”: Friendship as Platform for Reinvention
  • Lyric Sociability: Object Lessons in Female Friendship in Amelia Opie’s Occasional Verses
  • Afterword: Researching, Writing, and Teaching Women’s Tributes to Women
  • Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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