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Coterie fame, media choice and the wirting lives of Hester Mulso Chapone and Catherine Talbot
Verfasst von:
Schellenberg, Betty A.
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in:
Women's writing
Wallingford:
2014
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316 - 336 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Schellenberg, Betty A. info |
| In: | Women's writing |
| Jahr: | 2014 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This article explores the role of manuscript and print media systems and their associated practices in the writing lives of two eighteenth-century women, Hester Mulso Chapone (1727–1801) and Catherine Talbot (1721–70). Because scribal and print-oriented patterns of literary production and dissemination co-existed in the eighteenth century in a unique equilibrium, authors often demonstrated a self-consciousness about media choice. Mulso/Chapone and Talbot have not lent themselves readily to examination as authors in part because of the belatedness of their substantial print publications, obscuring the foundation of their print fame in the recognition they had won long before as coterie writers. This article examines the correspondence record for what it reveals about the character of three literary coteries: the Wrest circle, the Richardson-Edwards-Mulso coterie, and the Bluestocking group centred on Elizabeth Montagu. While both Mulso/Chapone and Talbot experienced some disabling effects of coterie culture, it also offered them valuable opportunities for significant involvement in literary production and widespread recognition. Thus their careers offer a lesson in media history: an apparent succession from sociable literary modes to the printing press in fact reflects, not an abandonment of coterie culture, but a selective use of co-existing media options in pursuit of social usefulness and fame. | |
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