Essays by Elizabeth Child, Eger, Harriet Guest, Deborah Heller, Gary Kelly, Susan Lanser, Jane Magrath, Emma Major, Betty Rizzo, and Staves suggest the roles played women of Bluestocking circle in cultural social transformations second half eighteenth century England.

In his biting review of the 2008 National Portrait Gallery exhibition “Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings”, Brian Sewell declared that: “[a]lmost everything sane man needs to know abou...

In this essay the author traces development of polite sociability within framework European salon. particular, suggests an epistolary intertextuality salon culture that reveals a politicization from salons précieuses to early nineteenth-century in France and Germany. Underlying fusion art, conversation epistolarity is greater vision civil society. What interests particularly notion reciprocal communication developed tradition letter work Bluestockings Bettina von Arnim Rahel Varnhagen. Not...

Economic development zones are a good example of how the interplay economic and political decision-makers fosters regional development. Our analysis aims to shed light on dynamics determinants this process by studying two state-level in central China. These interesting examples since there is empirical evidence prosperity these zones, although they do not benefit from proximity coast like earlier open Empirical shows that created successful interaction firms institutions different levels....

Abstract This article reviews critical scholarship on eighteenth‐century utopias and utopianism over the last ten years. It suggests that, in light of current debates about Enlightenment discourses, reflect accurately multitude discourses gender, sexuality, colonialism politics that make so contentious.

ABSTRACT The golden age has not passed; it lies in the future. —Paul Signac

Introduction"The Commerce of Life": Elizabeth Montagu (1718–1800) Nicole Pohl (bio) There is a much higher character than that wit or poet, savant, which rational and sociable being, willing to carry on the commerce life with all sweetness condescension decency virtue will permit.1 john doran's characterization aptly reflects her multifaceted versatile role in eighteenth-century society. was still known as prominent author, critic, patron, businesswoman, salonnière. Through birth,...