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Tatling Women in the Public Sphere: Rhetorical Femininity and the English Essay Periodical
- Eighteenth-Century Studies
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 38, Number 2, Winter 2005
- pp. 283-300
- 10.1353/ecs.2005.0013
- Article
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Abstract
This essay identifies two new devices in the early eighteenth-century essay periodical, rhetorical femininity and the family metaphor. The argument traces the relationship between and utility of these devices in constructing the essay periodical genre, exploring their roles in shaping eighteenth-century ideas about femininity, family, and the public sphere. The analysis focuses on three early imitators of SteeleÕs Tatler: the Tatling Harlot, the Whisperer, and the Female Tatler.
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