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xiii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Author Elizabeth Tasker Davis demonstrates in this comprehensive study how wit, virtue and fine feeling built upon each other in overlapping, gendered appeals for women's rights and capabilities in the late seventeenth to the late eighteenth century.
A revolution in mood : emblems, embodiment, and ephemera -- On the stage : dramatized women's rhetoric -- In sociable venues : clubs, salons, and debating societies -- On the page : written rhetoric and arguments about education.
Includes bibliographical references and index.