@article{803063, note = {Introduction: "A female patriot? vanity! absurd!" -- "How hard is the condition of our sex"?: the female advocate and the subject of sympathy in The fair penitent -- That sex's care: sentimental union and the common good -- Public victims: Janes, Jacobites, and the national she-tragedy -- "Even in the softer sex": gendering patriotism in the plays of James Thomson -- Epilogue: circulating power, public affections, and the re-masculinization of British public spirit.}, author = {Wilson, Brett D.,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/803063}, title = {A race of female patriots women and public spirit on the British stage, 1688-1745 / [electronic resource] :}, publisher = {Bucknell University Press, co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,}, recid = {803063}, pages = {xvi, 293 p.}, address = {Lanham :}, year = {2012}, }