A Race of Female Patriots - Women and Public Spirit on the British Stage, 1688-1745

A Race of Female Patriots is a study of tragic drama after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 that yields new insight into women's involvement in the public sphere and the political and aesthetic significance of feeling.

List 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

About the author

By Brett Wilson

Summary

A Race of Female Patriots is a study of tragic drama after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 that yields new insight into women’s involvement in the public sphere and the political and aesthetic significance of feeling.

Product details

• Authors: Brett Wilson, Brett D. Wilson
• Publisher: University Press Copublishing Division
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611483642
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-364-2
• No. of pages: 310
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 229 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 567 g
• Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought; Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet