A Race Of Female Patriots: Women and Public Spirit on the British Stage, 1688–1745
Author:   Brett Wilson
Publisher:   Associated University Presses
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Pages:   310
Publication Date:   23 December 2011
Format:   Hardback
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A Race Of Female Patriots: Women and Public Spirit on the British Stage, 1688–1745


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Author:   Brett Wilson
Publisher:   Associated University Presses
Imprint:   Bucknell University Press,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9781611483642


ISBN 10:   1611483646
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   23 December 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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The strength of the book lies in the way it provides a new sense of the cultural logic of these texts considered generically as exemplars of a specifically Whig ideology. Studies In English Literature


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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.

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