Millenium Hall

Scott, Sarah

ISBN 10: 1551110156 / ISBN 13: 9781551110158

Editore: Broadview Press Inc, 1995

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Codice articolo G1551110156I4N00

Riassunto:

In 1750 at the age of twenty-seven Sarah Scott published her first novel, a conventional romance. A year later she left her husband after only a few months of marriage and devoted herself thereafter to writing and to promoting such causes as the creation of secular and separatist female communities. This revolutionary concept was given flesh in Millenium Hall, first published in 1762 and generally thought to be the finest of her six novels.

The text may be seen as the manifesto of the ‘bluestocking’ movement—the protean feminism that arose under eighteenth-century gentry capitalism (originating in 1750, largely under the impetus of Scott’s sister Elizabeth Montagu), and that rejected a world which early feminists saw symbolized in the black silk stockings demanded by formal society. It is a comment on Western society as well as on the strengths of Scott’s novel that the message of Millenium Hall continues to resonate strongly more than two centuries later.

Informazioni sull'autore:

Gary Kelly is Chair of the Department of English at the University of Keele. His many works include Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft (Macmillan, 1992).

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Titolo: Millenium Hall
Casa editrice: Broadview Press Inc
Data di pubblicazione: 1995
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket