"Evoking the Salon: Eliza Haywood's The Female Spectator & The Conversation of
Protofeminist Space" reads Eliza Haywood's 18th century periodical, The Female
Spectator, as a reenactment of the feminocentric French salon within the discourse of
print. Such a perspective reorients our perception of the periodical as a women's
miscellany, making it, instead, a unified hetero-intellectual space that participates in
polyvalent, protofeminist gender construction. My reading of The Female Spectator uses
the salon model of discourse to argue for Haywood's deep interrogation of Addison and
Steele's seminal periodical, The Spectator, Haywood's own subversively erotic novel,
Love in Excess, and the conservative feminism of Mary Astell. In retracing these
conversations, "Evoking the Salon" suggests we see Haywood's periodical as evoking a new
'republic of letters' in England, a legacy necessary for the formation of English
feminist consciousness thereafter. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. / Degree Awarded: Summer Semester, 2010. / Date of Defense: June 24, 2010. / Salonniere, Protofeminist, Feminist Rhetoric, Eighteenth-century Periodical, Salon Rhetoric, Eliza Haywood, Conversational Rhetorica, Mary Astell, The Spectator, Addison and Steele, Love in Excess, Coffeehouse Rhetoric, Eighteenth-century Coffeehouse / Includes bibliographical references. / Helen Burke, Professor Directing Dissertation; Joyce Carbonell, University Representative; Candace Ward, Committee Member; Kathleen Blake Yancey, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_168843 |
| Contributors | Dowd, Emily Joan (authoraut), Burke, Helen (professor directing dissertation), Carbonell, Joyce (university representative), Ward, Candace (committee member), Yancey, Kathleen Blake (committee member), Department of English (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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