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Title The circuit of Apollo : eighteenth-century women's tributes to women / edited by Laura L. Runge and Jessica Cook.

Publication Info. Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations.
text file
Series Early modern feminisms
Early modern feminisms.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note "This collection of essays began as a Women's Caucus luncheon discussion at the ASECS meeting in Williamsburg, Virginia March 2014"--Text
Contents Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- 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
Summary "Historicizes British women's relationships with other women through the medium of commemorative writing over the course of the long eighteenth century. Featuring archival discoveries, the contributions in this volume trace female networks, friendships, rivalries, and competition and uncover the material record of women's honor"-- Provided by publisher
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Subject English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
English literature -- Women authors.
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
English literature.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses.
Great Britain.
Women and literature.
Women -- Social networks -- Great Britain -- Congresses.
History.
Female friendship -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses.
Female friendship.
Women -- Social networks.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Women's friendships.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Runge, Laura L., editor.
Cook, Jessica L., editor.
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Women's Caucus (2014 : Williamsburg, Va.)
Other Form: Print version: Circuit of Apollo. Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2019] 9781644530030 (DLC) 2019017508
ISBN 9781644530054 electronic book
1644530058 electronic book
9781644530030 hardcover alkaline paper