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Wit, Virtue, and Emotion

by Elizabeth Tasker Davis · 2021

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"Author Elizabeth Tasker Davis demonstrates in this comprehensive study how wit, virtue, and fine feeling built upon each other in overlapping, gendered appeals for women's rights and capabilities in the late seventeenth to the late eighteenth century"—

Genre
humorhumorMore like thisLess of this
Themes
womenwomenMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2020s2020sMore like thisLess of this
Subject
historyhistoryMore like thisLess of thissociologysociologyMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 219 pages

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