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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 the robust creativity and intellectual work contributed by women to culture in the long eighteenth century. Women's tributes to each other sometimes took the form of critical engagement or competition, but they always exposed the feminocentric networks of artistic, social, and material exchange women created and maintained both in and outside of London. This volume advocates for a new perspective for researching and teaching early modern women that is grounded in admiration. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

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Author:   Laura Runge ,  Jessica Cook ,  Claudia Thomas Kairoff ,  Nicolle Jordan
Publisher:   University of Delaware Press
Imprint:   University of Delaware Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.530kg
ISBN:  

9781644530030

ISBN 10:   1644530031
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   01 May 2019
Recommended Age:   From 16 to 99 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Cover PageSeries PageTitle PageCopyright PageContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionTracing “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 BarkerMartha Fowke’s Tributes to Mary, Lady Chudleigh, 1711 and 1726Eliza 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 FriendshipPainting in Bright Characters: Helen Maria Williams’s Poetic Tributes to Anna Seward, Elizabeth Montagu, and Marie-Jeanne RolandSapphic Circuitry: Anna Seward’s Equivocal Tribute to “Llangollen’s Vanished Pair”“I Delight in the Success of Your Literary Labours”: Friendship as Platform for ReinventionLyric Sociability: Object Lessons in Female Friendship in Amelia Opie’s Occasional VersesAfterword: Researching, Writing, and Teaching Women’s Tributes to WomenBibliographyContributorsIndex

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The most significant contribution of this collection is not repeating examples of supportive women writers' friendships but further developing the complexities, nuances, and tensions in female writers' relationships. --Susan Staves, Brandeis University, author of A Literary History of Women's Writing in Britain, 1660-1800

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Laura L. Runge is Professor of English at the University of South Florida and the author of Teaching with the Norton Anthology of Literature by Women. Jessica Cook teaches in the English department of the University of South Florida.

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