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Rescuing the "living spirit" from the "dead letter": How the eighteenth-century's literary ladies re-invented Shakespeare.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Rescuing the "living spirit" from the "dead letter": How the eighteenth-century's literary ladies re-invented Shakespeare./
Author:	Carson, Anne.
Description:	198 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-03, Section: A, page: 1001.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-03A.
Subject:	Women's Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3255109

Rescuing the "living spirit" from the "dead letter": How the eighteenth-century's literary ladies re-invented Shakespeare.
Carson, Anne.

Rescuing the "living spirit" from the "dead letter": How the eighteenth-century's literary ladies re-invented Shakespeare. - 198 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-03, Section: A, page: 1001.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Temple University, 2007.

My dissertation considers the impact that the rediscovery and analysis of Shakespeare's work by eighteenth-century female writers has on the culture's perception not only of Shakespeare but also on the place of femininity in the world of letters. In studying the often overlooked interaction between women scholars and "the nation's poet," this project situates the work of writers like Elizabeth Montagu, Charlotte Lennox, and Elizabeth Inchbald as crucial to a reprioritization of what is valuable in literature. I assess the women critics' ability to infiltrate what many saw as a men's club and, when inside, to import "female" language and attitudes, without undermining the integrity of their respective studies. Focusing, for instance, on the intricacies of human relationships, sentimental behaviors, and domestic responsibility, these writers help give Shakespeare a more substantive Augustan afterlife than had previously been realized.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017481
Women's Studies.

Rescuing the "living spirit" from the "dead letter": How the eighteenth-century's literary ladies re-invented Shakespeare.
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520 $a My dissertation considers the impact that the rediscovery and analysis of Shakespeare's work by eighteenth-century female writers has on the culture's perception not only of Shakespeare but also on the place of femininity in the world of letters. In studying the often overlooked interaction between women scholars and "the nation's poet," this project situates the work of writers like Elizabeth Montagu, Charlotte Lennox, and Elizabeth Inchbald as crucial to a reprioritization of what is valuable in literature. I assess the women critics' ability to infiltrate what many saw as a men's club and, when inside, to import "female" language and attitudes, without undermining the integrity of their respective studies. Focusing, for instance, on the intricacies of human relationships, sentimental behaviors, and domestic responsibility, these writers help give Shakespeare a more substantive Augustan afterlife than had previously been realized.
520 $a What largely helps to sustain the enthusiasm of the feminine position in these critical works is the popularity of the eighteenth-century novel. As all but one of the women profiled in this dissertation are novelists, I argue that their contributions to the domain of Shakespearean scholarship are informed by the their narrative backgrounds. The novel offers women writers a comfortable forum for appropriating and, in some ways, controlling terms historically used to stigmatize their literary endeavors, terms like sensibility, domesticity, and morality. Within the frame of a more "novelized" discourse, the women are freer to explore the complexities of their rhetorical voices and critical subjectivities, while authoritatively commenting upon the psychological and emotional vicissitudes of Shakespeare's characters. As a resource for the critic, the novel thus helps establish a vocabulary and an important precedent for mining and reevaluating the feminine in Shakespeare.
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