British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780367880194 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 214 str.

Teresa Barnard

Opis

Highlighting the remarkable women who found ways around the constraints placed on their intellectual growth, this collection shows that long eighteenth-century writers usurped subjects perceived as masculine to contribute to scientific, political, philosophical and theological debate and progress. This multifaceted volume goes beyond traditional re

Spis treści

Part 1 An Engagement with Science:  'To bring this useful invention into fashion in England': Mary Wortley Montagu as medical expert.  The lure of the volcano in the female literary imagination.  Women's 'reason' for a 'rising generation': Mary Wollstonecraft, paediatric science and the child of nature.  Part 2 Religious Discourses:  Anxiety, authorship, authority: the maternal feminine and the divine in Hannah More's Sacred Dramas.  Rethinking surrender: Elizabeth Inchbald and the 'Catholic novel'.  Veiled exegesis: dissenting women's aesthetic approach to theological hermeneutics and social action.  Part 3 Radical Women, Politics, and Philosophy:  'A longing to enjoy my liberty': the patronage, writings, and picturesque tours of Elizabeth Percy, 1st Duchess of Northumberland.  Coming out of the closet and competing with John Anybody: the bold world of Joanna Baillie.  'France is a republic': The Canterbury Tales and Harriet Lee's revolutionary gothic.

 

O autorze

Teresa Barnard is an independent scholar.