Women, Popular Culture, and the Eighteenth Century

Women, Popular Culture, and the Eighteenth Century
Title Women, Popular Culture, and the Eighteenth Century PDF eBook
Author Tiffany Potter
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Pages 345
Release 2012-01-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1442641819

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Top scholars in eighteenth-century studies examine the significance of the parallel devaluations of women's culture and popular culture by looking at theatres and actresses; novels, magazines, and cookbooks; and populist politics, dress, and portraiture.

Women, Popular Culture, and the Eighteenth Century

Women, Popular Culture, and the Eighteenth Century
Title Women, Popular Culture, and the Eighteenth Century PDF eBook
Author Tiffany Potter
Publisher
Pages 321
Release 2014-05-05
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9781442626911

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Top scholars in eighteenth-century studies examine the significance of the parallel devaluations of women's culture and popular culture by looking at theatres and actresses; novels, magazines, and cookbooks; and populist politics, dress, and portraiture.

Women Writing Music in Late Eighteenth-Century England

Women Writing Music in Late Eighteenth-Century England
Title Women Writing Music in Late Eighteenth-Century England PDF eBook
Author Leslie Ritchie
Publisher Routledge
Pages 288
Release 2017-07-05
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1351536613

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Combining new musicology trends, formal musical analysis, and literary feminist recovery work, Leslie Ritchie examines rare poetic, didactic, fictional, and musical texts written by women in late eighteenth-century Britain. She finds instances of and resistance to contemporary perceptions of music as a form of social control in works by Maria Barth?mon, Harriett Abrams, Mary Worgan, Susanna Rowson, Hannah Cowley, and Amelia Opie, among others. Relating women's musical compositions and writings about music to theories of music's function in the formation of female subjectivities during the latter half of the eighteenth century, Ritchie draws on the work of cultural theorists and cultural historians, as well as feminist scholars who have explored the connection between femininity and performance. Whether crafting works consonant with societal ideals of charitable, natural, and national order, or re-imagining their participation in these musical aids to social harmony, women contributed significantly to the formation of British cultural identity. Ritchie's interdisciplinary book will interest scholars working in a range of fields, including gender studies, musicology, eighteenth-century British literature, and cultural studies.

Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England

Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England
Title Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England PDF eBook
Author Catherine Ingrassia
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 248
Release 1998-11-05
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780521630634

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The contemporaneous development of speculative investment and the novel in the early eighteenth century, and women's role in both.

The Cinematic Eighteenth Century

The Cinematic Eighteenth Century
Title The Cinematic Eighteenth Century PDF eBook
Author Srividhya Swaminathan
Publisher Routledge
Pages 305
Release 2017-07-28
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1351800949

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This collection explores how film and television depict the complex and diverse milieu of the eighteenth century as a literary, historical, and cultural space. Topics range from adaptations of Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (The Martian) to historical fiction on the subjects of slavery (Belle), piracy (Crossbones and Black Sails), monarchy (The Madness of King George and The Libertine), print culture (Blackadder and National Treasure), and the role of women (Marie Antoinette, The Duchess, and Outlander). This interdisciplinary collection draws from film theory and literary theory to discuss how film and television allows for critical re-visioning as well as revising of the cultural concepts in literary and extra-literary writing about the historical period.

Selling Women's History

Selling Women's History
Title Selling Women's History PDF eBook
Author Emily Westkaemper
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Pages 277
Release 2017-01-09
Genre Art
ISBN 0813576350

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Only in recent decades has the American academic profession taken women’s history seriously. But the very concept of women’s history has a much longer past, one that’s intimately entwined with the development of American advertising and consumer culture. Selling Women’s History reveals how, from the 1900s to the 1970s, popular culture helped teach Americans about the accomplishments of their foremothers, promoting an awareness of women’s wide-ranging capabilities. On one hand, Emily Westkaemper examines how this was a marketing ploy, as Madison Avenue co-opted women’s history to sell everything from Betsy Ross Red lipstick to Virginia Slims cigarettes. But she also shows how pioneering adwomen and female historians used consumer culture to publicize histories that were ignored elsewhere. Their feminist work challenged sexist assumptions about women’s subordinate roles. Assessing a dazzling array of media, including soap operas, advertisements, films, magazines, calendars, and greeting cards, Selling Women’s History offers a new perspective on how early- and mid-twentieth-century women saw themselves. Rather than presuming a drought of female agency between the first and second waves of American feminism, it reveals the subtle messages about women’s empowerment that flooded the marketplace.

Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry

Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry
Title Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry PDF eBook
Author Paula R. Backscheider
Publisher JHU Press
Pages 556
Release 2005-12-31
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780801881695

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Co-Winner, James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association This major study offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women poets, casting new light on the ways in which poetry was read and enjoyed, on changing poetic tastes in British culture, and on the development of many major poetic genres and traditions. Rather than presenting a chronological survey, Paula R. Backscheider explores the forms in which women wrote and the uses to which they put those forms. Considering more than forty women in relation to canonical male writers of the same era, she concludes that women wrote in all of the genres that men did but often adapted, revised, and even created new poetic kinds from traditional forms. Backscheider demonstrates that knowledge of these women's poetry is necessary for an accurate and nuanced literary history. Within chapters on important canonical and popular verse forms, she gives particular attention to such topics as women's use of religious poetry to express candid ideas about patriarchy and rape; the continuing evolution and important role of the supposedly antiquarian genre of the friendship poetry; same-sex desire in elegy by women as well as by men; and the status of Charlotte Smith as a key figure of the long eighteenth century, not only as a Romantic-era poet.