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Wit, virtue, and emotion : British women's enlightenment rhetoric / Elizabeth Tasker Davis

Davis, Elizabeth Tasker, 1962- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2021]

xiii, 219 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Davis, Elizabeth Tasker, 1962- : Wit, virtue, and emotion. - Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2021] (Online-Ausgabe)

978-0-8093-3827-6 (paperback)

978-0-8093-3828-3 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2020046331

OCoLC: 1229155268     

HK 1081      Ähnliche Literatur

HQ1593

305.420941

Basisklassifikation: 15.64 (Großbritannien; Irland) <Geschichte> ; 71.33 (Frau) <Soziologie>

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-AAC-DE-7

GND-Schlagwörter: Frau ; Rhetorik ; Tugend <Motiv> ; England ; Geschichte 1600-1800

LOC-SH: Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions ; Feminism and rhetoric -- Great Britain ; Women -- Great Britain -- Language ; English language -- Rhetoric -- History ; English wit and humor ; Virtue in literature ; Emotions in literature ; Enlightenment -- Great Britain ; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century

A revolution in mood : emblems, embodiment, and ephemera -- On the stage : dramatized women's rhetoric -- In sociable venues : clubs, salons, and debating societies -- On the page : written rhetoric and arguments about education.

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"Author Elizabeth Tasker Davis demonstrates in this comprehensive study how wit, virtue, and fine feeling built upon each other in overlapping, gendered appeals for women's rights and capabilities in the late seventeenth to the late eighteenth century"--