A Description of Millenium Hall (Broadview Literary Texts) (Broadview Literary Texts)

@book{citeulike:1397122, abstract = {{In 1750 at the age of twenty-seven Sarah Scott published her first novel, a conventional romance. A year later she left her husband after only a few months of marriage and devoted herself thereafter to writing and to promoting female communities. This revolutionary concept was given flesh in Millenium Hall, first published in 1762 and generally thought to be the finest of her six novels. <P>The text may seem as the manifesto of the 'bluestocking' movement--the protean feminism that arose under eighteenth-century gentry capitalism (originating in 1750, largely under the impetus of Scott's sister Elizabeth Montagu), and that rejected a world with early feminists saw symbolized in the black silk stockings demanded by formal society. It is a comment on Western society as well as on the strengths of Scott's novel that the message of Millenium Hall continues to resonate strongly more than two centuries later.}}, author = {Scott, Sarah }, citeulike-article-id = {1397122}, howpublished = {Paperback}, isbn = {1551110156}, keywords = {literature}, month = {October}, posted-at = {2007-06-18 15:32:20}, priority = {4}, publisher = {{Broadview Press}}, title = {A Description of Millenium Hall (Broadview Literary Texts) (Broadview Literary Texts)}, url = {http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20\&amp;path=ASIN/1551110156}, year = {1995} }

TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:1397122 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1397122 TI - A Description of Millenium Hall (Broadview Literary Texts) (Broadview Literary Texts) PB - {Broadview Press} SN - 1551110156 N2 - {In 1750 at the age of twenty-seven Sarah Scott published her first novel, a conventional romance. A year later she left her husband after only a few months of marriage and devoted herself thereafter to writing and to promoting female communities. This revolutionary concept was given flesh in Millenium Hall, first published in 1762 and generally thought to be the finest of her six novels. <P>The text may seem as the manifesto of the 'bluestocking' movement--the protean feminism that arose under eighteenth-century gentry capitalism (originating in 1750, largely under the impetus of Scott's sister Elizabeth Montagu), and that rejected a world with early feminists saw symbolized in the black silk stockings demanded by formal society. It is a comment on Western society as well as on the strengths of Scott's novel that the message of Millenium Hall continues to resonate strongly more than two centuries later.} KW - literature AU - Scott, Sarah PY - 1995/10/03/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&amp;path=ASIN/1551110156 ER -