The Circuit of Apollo: Eighteenth-Century Women’s Tributes to Women

Published by University of Delaware Press 2019

The Circuit of Apollo

Eighteenth-Century Women’s Tributes to Women

Edited by: Laura Runge and Jessica Cook
With contributions by: Claudia Thomas Kairoff , Nicolle Jordan , Christine Gerrard , Kathryn R. King , Catherine Ingrassia , Laura Tallon , Natasha Duquette , Susan S. Lanser , Katharine Kittredge , Shelley King and Betty A. Schellenberg

In the series Early Modern Feminisms

https://doi.org/10.36019/9781644530054

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Tracing “The Circuit of Appollo”: Poetic Forms and Identities in Anne Finch’s Tributes to Women Poets Claudia Thomas Kairoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
“Those Stately Palaces”: Tribute and Estates in the Work of Anne Finch and Jane Barker Nicolle Jordan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
Martha Fowke’s Tributes to Mary, Lady Chudleigh, 1711 and 1726 Christine Gerrard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
Eliza Haywood, Fame, and the Art of Self-Homage Kathryn R. King Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
“Who Praises Women Does the Muses Praise”: Mary Barber, Laetitia Pilkington, and Constantia Grierson’s Poetic Tributes Catherine Ingrassia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
“Friendship, Better than a Muse, Inspires”: Anna Letitia Barbauld Claims the Sister Arts for Female Friendship Laura Tallon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
Painting in Bright Characters: Helen Maria Williams’s Poetic Tributes to Anna Seward, Elizabeth Montagu, and Marie-Jeanne Roland Natasha Duquette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Sapphic Circuitry: Anna Seward’s Equivocal Tribute to “Llangollen’s Vanished Pair” Susan S. Lanser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
“I Delight in the Success of Your Literary Labours”: Friendship as Platform for Reinvention Katharine Kittredge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Lyric Sociability: Object Lessons in Female Friendship in Amelia Opie’s Occasional Verses Shelley King Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
Afterword: Researching, Writing, and Teaching Women’s Tributes to Women Betty A. Schellenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223

Language: English
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 233
Illustrations
- Other: 3 B&W Illustrations
Keywords: literary criticism; eighteenth-century studies; women's studies; eighteenth-century Europe; women's literary history; women's relationships; women's art; feminocentric networks; material exchange; female friendships; admiration; artistic kinship

eBook

Published: May 1, 2019
ISBN: 9781644530054