Women's utopias of the eighteenth century /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Johns, Alessa
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2003]
Subjects:	Feminism > History > 18th century. Utopias > History > 18th century. Women > History > 18th century. Utopieën. Vrouwen. Feminisme.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

Part 1: defining feminist utopianism
Mary Astell's "excited needles": imitation, circulation, and a theory of feminist utopia
Feminist utopia and the new commercialism
Part 2: women's utopian visions
Sarah Fielding: ideal readers and utopian commerce
Reconceiving the contract: Sarah Scott's self-replicating utopia
Mary Hamilton: plagiarizing utopia
Reproducing utopia beyond Britain: Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont's The new Clarissa and Sophie von La Roche's Events at Lake Oneida
Afterword: a middle way.