By Maria Luisa Lopez-vidriero
Based at the Panizzi Lectures given within the British Library in November 2004, The Polished Cornerstones of the Temple examines the influence of women's academic initiatives on woman analyzing and ebook gathering within the royal courts of the eighteenth century.
Because monarchs are foreign figures who additionally offer a behaviour-model for his or her nationwide topics; they make very good case-studies for watching specific nationwide styles in the wider context of ecu written tradition. the most a part of the learn is dedicated to exploring the libraries of 2 queens: Caroline of Ansbach (1638-1727), spouse of George II, and Elizabeth Farnese (1692-1766), spouse of Philip V. by means of evaluating and contrasting their nice collections, writer Maria Luisa Lopez-Vidriero strikes past Protestant-Catholic highbrow and spiritual variations and starts off to outline a eu eighteenth-century woman literary canon.
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23 Ayr-shire circulating library for gentlemen and ladies; consisting of books ancient and modern instructive and entertaining to be lent to read by the year, half-year, quarter or month ... by James Meuros bookseller in Kilmarnock, c. 1760, p. [I]. 52%). In Elizabeth Farnese's catalogues novels have no specific place. 30%) where novels and romances are concentrated. 25 Antoine Caillot, Voyage autour de ma bibliotheque, roman biblioRraphique, ou les gens du monde et les dames peuvent apprendre former une bibliotheque de bons ouvrages, dans que/que genre que ce soit, Paris, 1809, p.
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