Female Communities, 1600-1800: Literary Visions and Cultural Realities

Abstract

Notes on the Contributors - List of Illustrations - Foreword L.C.Khanna - Introduction R.D'Monte & N.Pohl - 'My Desires....Lie...Wrapt Up Now in Folds of Lossse': Lady Mary Wroth's Baroque Visions of Female Community in the Enchantment Episodes of The Countess of Montgomeries Urania (1621) S.Donaghue - 'For Virgin Buildings Oft Brought Forth': Fantasies of Convent Sexuality K.Chedgzoy - 'Come to Lead a Preaching Life': Female Community in Seventeenth-Century Radical Sects E.Hobby - Mirroring Female Power: Separatist Spaces in the Plays of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle R.D'Monte - 'My Fine Delitive Tomb': Liberating 'Sisterly' Voices during the Civil War M.Wynne-Davies - Mary Astell's Excited Needles: Theorizing Feminist Utopia in Seventeenth-Century England A.Johns - 'In This Scared Space': The Secular Convent in late Seventeenth-and Eighteenth Century Expository Literature N.Pohl - Women's Provi(de)nce: Religion and Bluestocking Feminism in Sarah Scott's Millennium Hall G.Kelly - Sisterhood and Sarah Fielding L.Bree - Protected Witnesses: The Male Tourist and Female Communities in the Fictions of Thomas Amory and Sarah Scott S.Lamb - '...Virtuous Knowledge Woman's Truest Pride': Civic Ethos and Women's Literary Community in Eighteenth-Century Bath E.Child - Bibliography - Index

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