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- Emergent Nation: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1660–1714
- Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1557–1714
- Emergent Nation: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1660–1714
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Generic Transitions
- Part II Ideological Transitions
- Part III Cultural Transitions
- Chapter 11 Female Wits and the Late Stuart Stage
- Chapter 12 Deregulating the Libertine Mind: Wine, Wit, and Wanton Fancy
- Chapter 13 After Libertinism: The Passions of the Polite Christian Hero
- Chapter 14 Chymistry, Primary Qualities, and Empirical Knowledge
- Chapter 15 Information and Irony
- Part IV Local Transitions
- Index
- References
Chapter 11 - Female Wits and the Late Stuart Stage
from Part III - Cultural Transitions
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Book contents
- Emergent Nation: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1660–1714
- Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1557–1714
- Emergent Nation: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1660–1714
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Generic Transitions
- Part II Ideological Transitions
- Part III Cultural Transitions
- Chapter 11 Female Wits and the Late Stuart Stage
- Chapter 12 Deregulating the Libertine Mind: Wine, Wit, and Wanton Fancy
- Chapter 13 After Libertinism: The Passions of the Polite Christian Hero
- Chapter 14 Chymistry, Primary Qualities, and Empirical Knowledge
- Chapter 15 Information and Irony
- Part IV Local Transitions
- Index
- References
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Further Reading
Howe, Elizabeth, The First English Actresses – Women and Drama 1660–1700 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).Google Scholar
Marsden, Jean, Fatal Desire: Women, Sexuality and the English Stage, 1660–1720 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006).Google Scholar
Nussbaum, Felicity, Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater (Philadelphia and Oxford: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010).Google Scholar
Roberts, David, The Ladies: Female Patronage of English Drama, 1660–1700 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).Google Scholar
Wilson, Brett D, A Race of Female Patriots: Women and Public Spirit on the British Stage, 1688–1745 (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2012).Google Scholar