This book traces the history of fans from biblical times to the present day. Originating as an everyday functional object, the fan rapidly acquired ceremonial and social significance, becoming the utilitarian sceptre of kings, the subject of conversation for bluestockings of the seventeenth century, the toy of frivolous ladies, the vehicle of revolutionary messages, the sentimental possession of the Victorians, the mirror of the Belle Ipoque, and an advertising gimmick. Above all, fans are hand...
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A biography of Fanny Burney, author of "Evelina", who also kept a diary that records the Georgian England of Dr Johnson, Garrick and Reynolds. Events she recorded include drinking tea with the "Bluestockings", taking the waters at Bath and being chased round Kew Palace by King George III.
BIOGRAPHY OF FANNY BURNEY by KATE CHISHOLM
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Lynn Peril takes on a twentieth-century American icon: the college girl. The dual vision of the American archetype - a geek in glasses or a sex kitten in a teddy - was born when the age-old conflict over educating women was laid to rest. College was a place where women found self-esteem and yet images in popular culture reflected a lingering distrust of the educated woman. Thus, such lofty cultural expressions as ''Sex Kittens Go to College'' (1960) and a raft of naughty pictorials in men's magazines. Peril combines women's history and popular culture - peppered with delightful examples of femoribilia from the turn of the twentieth century to the 1980s - in an intelligent and witty study of the college girl, the first woman to take that socially controversial step towards educational equity. This is a paperback original.
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In the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a mass medium, American popular culture as we know it was first created - in the illustrated pages of comic books. It was however beaten down by church groups, community bluestockings, and a McCarthyish Congress. This book retells events from those years.
The Ten-Cent Plaque by David Hajdu
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From Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Germaine Greer, influential women have lamented their lack of foremothers. But why has the remarkable group of creative and intellectual women who flourished in eighteenth-century Britain been overlooked? Publicly celebrated in their time, these women's achievements in the worlds of art, literature and even political thought came to symbolize the progress of a civilized and commercial nation.This book introduces us to the 'Bluestocking' salon, where like-minded men and women met from the 1750s onwards to debate contemporary ideas and promote the life of the mind. The authors explore the identity of these brilliant bluestocking women and show how they used myth and tradition to strengthen their public image. For example, the allegory of the muses appealed to women, who saw the benefits of sociability, creative exchange and collaboration. At the end of the eighteenth century, in the aftermath of the American and French revolutions, the political climate changed, introducing new limits on female intellectual and personal liberties.The lives of three key figures illustrate the changing climate of opinion: the radical historian Catharine Macaulay (1731-91) and egalitarian author Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97) fell from grace with charges of moral and sexual license, while the evangelical Hannah More (1745-1843) became the acceptable face of bluestocking culture.Once again, openly intelligent women were viewed with suspicion and 'bluestocking', so recently a mark of distinction, became a term of abuse and ridicule. With portraits, prints, caricatures, personal artefacts and a fascinating narrative, the authors reveal the extraordinary vigour of the bluestockings and their culture. It accompanies an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London: 13 March-15 June 2008.
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This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the controversial, innovative role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Did women have an Enlightenment? Historians have long excluded women from the Enlightenment orbit. However, competing images of 'Woman' loomed large in Enlightenment thought, and women themselves - as scientists and salonnieres, bluestockings and governesses, political polemicists and novelists ...
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This volume contains three of Ben Jonson's greatest plays - Sejanus (1603), Volpone (1606) and Epicoene, or The Silent Woman (1609). Sejanus, an experimental tragedy written in the classical manner, was labelled a seditious work at the time of its first production and embroiled Jonson with the Privy Council. Volpone is the first of his mature comedies, with a remarkable cast of Venetian legacy-hunters: using verse of mock-heroic grandeur Jonson created in the character of Volpone one of his most flamboyant and cynical swindlers. Epicoene is a brilliant farce which makes fun of the pretensions of the courtiers, wits and bluestockings of contemporary London. Jonson was unique in his own time for the close personal supervision he gave to the publication of his plays. As a result, the early published texts of the plays in this volume carry an unusually high degree of authorial intention. In preparing this modernised edition an attempt has been made to conserve something of the author's highly individual treatment of names, verb forms and punctuation.
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This edition contains two of Frances Burney's comedies: "The Witlings", (1778-80) which satirizes the bluestockings; and "The Woman Hater" (1800-02), which explores social pretension and gender conflict.
The Witlings, The by Fanny Burney, Peter Sabor (Editor), Geoffrey M. Sill (Editor)
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