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Millenium Hall

Millenium Hall
Author: Sarah Scott
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 1995-10-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1770484590

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In 1750 at the age of twenty-seven Sarah Scott published her first novel, a conventional romance. A year later she left her husband after only a few months of marriage and devoted herself thereafter to writing and to promoting such causes as the creation of secular and separatist female communities. This revolutionary concept was given flesh in Millenium Hall, first published in 1762 and generally thought to be the finest of her six novels. The text may be seen as the manifesto of the ‘bluestocking’ movement—the protean feminism that arose under eighteenth-century gentry capitalism (originating in 1750, largely under the impetus of Scott’s sister Elizabeth Montagu), and that rejected a world which early feminists saw symbolized in the black silk stockings demanded by formal society. It is a comment on Western society as well as on the strengths of Scott’s novel that the message of Millenium Hall continues to resonate strongly more than two centuries later.


A Description of Millenium Hall

A Description of Millenium Hall
Author: Sarah Scott
Publisher: Dissertations-G
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1974
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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A Description of Millenium Hall (Feminist Classic)

A Description of Millenium Hall (Feminist Classic)
Author: Sarah Scott
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2020-12-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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This adventure novel tells the tale of the Millenium Hall, the female Utopia. The people in the Hall live in a model of mid-century reform ideas. All the women have crafts with which to better themselves. Property is held in common, and education is the primary pastime. The narrator's long-lost cousin relates the series of adventures and how each of the residents arrived at this female Utopia. The adventures are remarkable for their reliance on a nearly superstitious form of divine grace, where God's will manifests itself with the direct punishment of the wicked and the miraculous protection of the innocent. In one tale, a woman about to be ravished by a man is saved, literally by the hand of God, as her attacker dies of a stroke. Millenium Hall was Sarah Scott's most significant novel. Interest in it has revived in the 21st century among feminist literary scholars.


Notes and Queries

Notes and Queries
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 564
Release: 1889
Genre: Electronic journals
ISBN:

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Families of the Heart

Families of the Heart
Author: Ann Campbell
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2022-11-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1684484251

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In this innovative analysis of canonical British novels, Campbell identifies a new literary device—the surrogate family—as a signal of cultural anxieties about young women’s changing relationship to matrimony across the long eighteenth century. By assembling chosen families rather than families of origin, Campbell convincingly argues, female protagonists in these works compensate for weak family ties, explore the world and themselves, prepare for idealized marriages, or sidestep marriage altogether. Tracing the evolution of this rich convention from the female characters in Defoe’s and Richardson’s fiction who are allowed some autonomy in choosing spouses, to the more explicitly feminist work of Haywood and Burney, in which connections between protagonists and their surrogate sisters and mothers can substitute for marriage itself, this book makes an ambitious intervention by upending a traditional trope—the model of the hierarchal family—ultimately offering a new lens through which to regard these familiar works.


Gender and Utopia in the Eighteenth Century

Gender and Utopia in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Brenda Tooley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317130308

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Focusing on eighteenth-century constructions of symbolic femininity and eighteenth-century women's writing in relation to contemporary utopian discourse, this volume adjusts our understanding of the utopia of the Enlightenment, placing a unique emphasis on colonial utopias. These essays reflect on issues related to specific configurations of utopias and utopianism by considering in detail English and French texts by both women (Sarah Scott, Sarah Fielding, Isabelle de Charrière) and men (Paltock and Montesquieu). The contributors ask the following questions: In the influential discourses of eighteenth-century utopian writing, is there a place for 'woman,' and if so, what (or where) is it? How do 'women' disrupt, confirm, or ground the utopian projects within which these constructs occur? By posing questions about the inscription of gender in the context of eighteenth-century utopian writing, the contributors shed new light on the eighteenth-century legacies that continue to shape contemporary views of social and political progress.


The Body and Physical Difference

The Body and Physical Difference
Author: David T. Mitchell
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1997
Genre: Eugenics
ISBN: 9780472066599

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Groundbreaking perspectives on disability in culture and the arts that shed light on notions of identity and social marginality


A Description of Millenium Hall

A Description of Millenium Hall
Author: Sarah Scott
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2022-11-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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This feminist adventure classic tells the tale of the Millenium Hall, the female Utopia. The people in the Hall live in a model of mid-century reform ideas. All the women have crafts with which to better themselves. Property is held in common, and education is the primary pastime. The narrator's long-lost cousin relates the series of adventures and how each of the residents arrived at this female Utopia. The adventures are remarkable for their reliance on a nearly superstitious form of divine grace, where God's will manifests itself with the direct punishment of the wicked and the miraculous protection of the innocent. In one tale, a woman about to be ravished by a man is saved, literally by the hand of God, as her attacker dies of a stroke. Millenium Hall was Sarah Scott's most significant novel. Interest in it has revived in the 21st century among feminist literary scholars.


Unnatural Affections

Unnatural Affections
Author: George E. Haggerty
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1998
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780253211835

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Author George Haggerty examines the ""unnatural"" affections that flout cultural taboos and challenge what are seen as natural boundaries to desire. Such affections abound in 18th-century novels, offering a complex understanding of the role of gender and the articulation of female desire during the age in which women novel writers came into their own.


Utopian and Science Fiction by Women

Utopian and Science Fiction by Women
Author: Jane Donawerth
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1994
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780815626190

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"This collection speaks to common themes and strategies in women's writing about their different worlds, from Margaret Cavendish's seventeenth-century Blazing World of the North Pole to the "men-less" islands of the French writer Scudery to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century utopias of Shelley and Gaskell, and science fiction pulps, finishing with the more contemporary feminist fictions of Le Guin, Wittig, Piercy, and Mitchison. It shows that these fictions historically speak to each other and together amount to a literary tradition of women's writing about a better place."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved