A race of female patriots women and public spirit on the British stage, 1688-1745
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A race of female patriots women and public spirit on the British stage, 1688-1745
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Wilson, Brett D., 1971-
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Lanham : Bucknell University Press, co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2012.
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xvi, 293 p.
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Transits : literature, thought & culture 1650-1850
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Introduction: "A female patriot? vanity! absurd!" -- "How hard is the condition of our sex"?: the female advocate and the subject of sympathy in The fair penitent -- That sex's care: sentimental union and the common good -- Public victims: Janes, Jacobites, and the national she-tragedy -- "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.
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