Women's utopias of the eighteenth century

Women's utopias of the eighteenth century / Alessa Johns.

Author/creator	Johns, Alessa
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2003.
Description	xi, 212 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subject(s)	Feminism--History --18th century. Utopias--History --18th century. Women--History --18th century.

Contents	Part 1: defining feminist utopianism -- Mary Astell's "excited needles": imitation, circulation, and a theory of feminist utopia -- Feminist utopia and the new commercialism -- Part 2: women's utopian visions -- Sarah Fielding: ideal readers and utopian commerce -- Reconceiving the contract: Sarah Scott's self-replicating utopia -- Mary Hamilton: plagiarizing utopia -- Reproducing utopia beyond Britain: Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont's The new Clarissa and Sophie von La Roche's Events at Lake Oneida -- Afterword: a middle way.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2002151284
ISBN	0252028414 (alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	HQ1150 .J65 2003	✔ Available	Place Hold