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

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.

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: Bucknell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611483642
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-364-2
• No. of pages: 310
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 240 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 590 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