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Publicity And The Public Sphere (Respondent), Adrianne Wadewitz
Publicity And The Public Sphere (Respondent), Adrianne Wadewitz
Adrianne Wadewitz
No abstract provided.
The Sympathetic Self: Wollstonecraft And Barbauld’S Religious Sensibilities, Adrianne Wadewitz
The Sympathetic Self: Wollstonecraft And Barbauld’S Religious Sensibilities, Adrianne Wadewitz
Adrianne Wadewitz
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Sermonizing Women: Christian Civic Virtue And The Public Sphere, Adrianne Wadewitz
Sermonizing Women: Christian Civic Virtue And The Public Sphere, Adrianne Wadewitz
Adrianne Wadewitz
Although often thought of as a masculine genre, women writers effectively employed the sermon not only to enter doctrinal and other religious debates but also to create a broader space for women within the public sphere. In using this distinctively religious genre, women writers as diverse as Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft and Anna Laetitia Barbauld gave a moral legitimacy to the participation of women in a wide range of public issues. Their sermons presented an image of the reforming woman who could shape the public sphere through religion; constructing a moral public sphere became a Christian duty for women, as …
The Conservatism Of 1784: Georgiana, Duchess Of Devonshire And ‘Representative Publicness, Adrianne Wadewitz
The Conservatism Of 1784: Georgiana, Duchess Of Devonshire And ‘Representative Publicness, Adrianne Wadewitz
Adrianne Wadewitz
The 1784 Westminster election has garnered a lot of attention because of the extraordinary contemporary reactions, both positive and negative, to the participation of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. Historians such as Amanda Foreman, Elaine Chalus, Anne Stott, and Judith Lewis have used this election to illustrate the potential for female political involvement during the eighteenth-century. They also convincingly argue that the harsh criticism leveled at Georgiana was a consequence of her ‘democratic’ canvassing techniques and not a reaction to her sex, but their analyses lack a clear framework that accounts for the violence of the responses. I would like to …
Performed Subjectivity: The Absence Of Interiority In Pamela, Adrianne Wadewitz
Performed Subjectivity: The Absence Of Interiority In Pamela, Adrianne Wadewitz
Adrianne Wadewitz
In this paper I will challenge the dominant reading of Pamela that argues that Richardson constructs an interiorized character in Pamela through her letters and her occupation of the private space of the closet. I will contend, on the other hand, that Pamela does not have an independent, identifiable private self because of the performative nature of her letters and her movements; she develops subjectivity only when she performs. Furthermore, she performs various ‘roles’ such as maid, wife and lover, thus not inhabiting any one identity. Pamela does not so much present either a publication of the private or a …
Doubting Thomas’: The Failure Of Religious Appropriation In The Age Of Reason, Adrianne Wadewitz
Doubting Thomas’: The Failure Of Religious Appropriation In The Age Of Reason, Adrianne Wadewitz
Adrianne Wadewitz
No abstract provided.
The Overdetermining Religious Rhetoric(S) Of Blake’S And Paine’S Theosophies, Adrianne Wadewitz
The Overdetermining Religious Rhetoric(S) Of Blake’S And Paine’S Theosophies, Adrianne Wadewitz
Adrianne Wadewitz
Emphasizing a conflict between Paine the rationalist and Blake the prophet, scholars studying the relationship between Blake’s and Paine’s religious writings have chosen to focus more heavily on the political rather than the religious aspects of the texts. For example, John Coates writes that ‘Paine and Blake epitomise the two poles of a revolutionary dialectic between political pragmatism, action, rational planning on the one hand, and on the other, the constant need for visionary flexibility, a relation to change as a whole process, rather than one final goal’ (Woodcock and Coates, Combative Styles 104-5). This is, I believe, a simplified …