CiNii 図書 - Female communities, 1600-1800 : literary visions and cultural realities

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Female communities, 1600-1800 : literary visions and cultural realities

edited by Rebecca D'Monté and Nicole Pohl

Macmillan Press , St. Martin's Press, 2000

In association with The Institute of English Studies School of Advanced Study University of London

Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-257) and index

'My desires ... lie ... wrapt up now in folds of losse' : Lady Mary Wroth's Baroque visions of female community in the enchantment episodes of "The Countess of Montgomery's Urania" (1621) / Susan Donahue
'For virgin buildings oft brought forth' : fantasies of convent sexuality / Kate Chedgzoy
'Come to live a preaching life' : female community in seventeenth-century radical sects / Elaine Hobby
Mirroring female power : separatist spaces in the plays of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle / Rebecca D'Monté
'My fine delitive tomb' : liberating 'sisterly' voices during the Civil War / Marion Wynne-Davies
Mary Astell's 'Excited needles' : theorizing feminist utopia in seventeenth-century England / Alessa Johns
'In this sacred space' : the secular convent in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century expository literature / Nicole Pohl
Women's provi(de)nce : religion and bluestocking feminism in Sarah Scott's "Millenium Hall" (1762) / Gary Kelly
Sisterhood and Sarah Fielding / Linda Bree
Protected witnesses : the male tourist and female communities in the fictions of Thomas Amory and Sarah Scott / Susan Lamb
'... Virtuous knowledge women's truest pride' : civic ethos and women's literary community in eighteenth-century Bath / Elizabeth Child