Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Dowd, Emily Joan
Author's Email Address	edowd@fsu.edu
URN	etd-08042010-115141
Title	Evoking The Salon: Eliza Haywood's The Female Spectator & The Conversation of Protofeminist Space
Degree	Doctor of Philosophy
Department	English, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Helen Burke Committee Chair Candance Ward Committee Member Kathleen Blake Yancey Committee Member Joyce Carbonell University Representative
Keywords	Salonniere Protofeminist Feminist Rhetoric Eighteenth-century Periodical Salon Rhetoric Eliza Haywood Conversational Rhetorica Mary Astell The Spectator Addison and Steele Love in Excess Coffeehouse Rhetoric Eighteenth-century Coffeehouse
Date of Defense	2010-06-24
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract �gEvoking the Salon: Eliza Haywood�fs The Female Spectator & The Conversation of Protofeminist Space�h reads Eliza Haywood�fs 18th century periodical, The Female Spectator, as a reenactment of the feminocentric French salon within the discourse of print. Such a perspective reorients our perception of the periodical as a women�fs miscellany, making it, instead, a unified hetero�]intellectual space that participates in polyvalent, protofeminist gender construction. My reading of The Female Spectator uses the salon model of discourse to argue for Haywood�fs deep interrogation of Addison and Steele�fs seminal periodical, The Spectator, Haywood�fs own subversively erotic novel, Love in Excess, and the conservative feminism of Mary Astell. In retracing these conversations, �gEvoking the Salon�h suggests we see Haywood�fs periodical as evoking a new �erepublic of letters�f in England, a legacy necessary for the formation of English feminist consciousness thereafter.
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