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Dowd, E. J. (2010). Evoking the Salon: Eliza Haywood's the Female Spectator & the Conversation of Protofeminist Space. Retrieved from http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_migr_etd-0682
"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.
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
Date of Defense
Date of Defense: June 24, 2010.
Submitted Note
A Dissertation submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Publisher
Florida State University
Identifier
FSU_migr_etd-0682
Dowd, E. J. (2010). Evoking the Salon: Eliza Haywood's the Female Spectator & the Conversation of Protofeminist Space. Retrieved from http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_migr_etd-0682
