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Anne Kugler - Errant Plagiary: The Life and Writing of Lady Sarah Cowper, 1644-1720 - 9780804734189 - V9780804734189
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Errant Plagiary: The Life and Writing of Lady Sarah Cowper, 1644-1720

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Description for Errant Plagiary: The Life and Writing of Lady Sarah Cowper, 1644-1720 Hardback. This is the story of Lady Sarah Cowper, based on a diary that she kept from 1700 to 1716. She reveals not only her personal life, but also her thoughts about religion, politics, and society, weaving her own words with unattributed quotations from conduct manuals, sermons, periodicals, and other sources. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JD; 3JF; BGH; DSB; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 572.

Over the course of sixteen years—from 1700 to 1716—Lady Sarah Cowper kept a truly remarkable diary, comprising over 2,300 pages of intimate commentary, not only on her personal life but also on religion, politics, and society in early modern England. Throughout this revealing text, she interweaves her own words with unattributed quotations from other writings—conduct manuals, sermons, periodicals, and other forms of prescriptive literature—in order to valorize her own identity and her claims to authority, both within her family and within a wider public sphere.

Not only did Lady Sarah borrow the words of others, this “errant plagiarist” reordered ... Read more

Self-righteous, unhappy in her marriage, socially insecure, and under the stress of the murder trial of her youngest son, Lady Sarah began her diary at the age of fifty-six. Using extensive extracts from the diary, the author recounts Lady Sarah’s conflicts with her husband and sons, her uneasy social rounds, her widowhood, and, most notably, her intellectual and spiritual life.

The story of Lady Sarah, with the vivid descriptions of her emotional and intellectual outpourings in her diary, allows a close examination of the relationship between the large corpus of prescriptive literature of the period (particularly as it related to women and their roles) and actual practice. Through its exploration of the life and work of an articulate, thoughtful woman, the book also casts light on the interworkings of the period’s hierarchies of gender, rank, and age—hierarchies ordinarily viewed in isolation from each other.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804734189
SKU
V9780804734189
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About Anne Kugler
Anne Kugler is Assistant Professor of History at John Carroll University.

Reviews for Errant Plagiary: The Life and Writing of Lady Sarah Cowper, 1644-1720
"In a year with notable contributions to "women's studies," this book stands out for its haunting portrait of an eloquent woman, with complex desires and concomitant disappointments, living out a life intent on remaining relevant against indifferent social presures."—Allen Reddick, Studies in English Literature

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