Book Chapter

Millenium Hall / by Sarah Scott (1762)

Abstract

Best known as the foremost utopian novel of the eighteenth century, Sarah Scott’s Millenium Hall (1762) also represents what Gary Kelly has termed the “Bluestocking programme,” a fictional representation of real reforms desired by a network of female intellectuals including Scott, Scott’s sister Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Carter, Hester Chapone, and others. This chapter will focus on Bluestocking politics as represented in the novel, as well as on emotional and economic themes depicted through female friendship, feminism, contractualism, philanthropy, education, and estate management.

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Authors

Pohl, Nicole

Oxford Brookes departments

School of Education, Humanities and Languages

Dates

Year of publication: 2022
Date of RADAR deposit: 2023-10-23

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Related resources

This RADAR resource is the Version of Record of Sarah Scott, Millenium Hall (1762)
This RADAR resource is Part of Handbook of the British Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century [ISBN: 9783110649765] / edited by Katrin Berndt and Alessa Johns (DeGruyter, 2022).