Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Looser, Devoney

Titel

Brilliant Women: Eighteenth-Century Bluestockings

Ist Teil von

• Eighteenth - Century Studies, 2009, Vol.42 (2), p.335-339

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Quelle

Project MUSE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Marketing aside, however, More's fraught relationship to the Bluestocking Circle and to 1790s feminism illustrate well the political complexities that the exhibit as a whole seeks to unearth, examine, and give shape to in a historical framework. Curator Lucy Peltz indicated in late April 2008 that Brilliant Women was drawing upward of 2,000 visitors per day, meaning that an estimated 175,000 visitors were exposed to the origins of the term "bluestocking"; to the flowering of eighteenth-century female intellectuals, authors, and feminists; and to the punishing ways in which late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century critics attempted to quash these activities and the individuals promoting them.