Hannah More in Context

ISBN-13: 9781032182964 / Miękka / 2023 / 230 str.

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In this book, readers can explore a wide range of essays rooted in up-to-the-minute research examining the life, times and cultural contexts of the writer and philanthropist Hannah More (1745-1833). The book presents the fullest picture yet of this complex and compelling author, and the era she helped mould with her words.

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Introduction: Hannah More in Context

Kerri Andrews and Sue Edney

1. Tongues in Trees: Hannah More and the Nature Inscription

Robin Jarvis

2. Feeling Good: Sentimental Virtue in Hannah More’s The Search After Happiness (1773) and "Sensibility" (1782)

Rose Hilton

3. Defending "Reason’s rein": Rationalism as Persuasive Strategy in Hannah More’s Slavery: A Poem (1788)

Adam Bridgen

4. Writing Women at Work

Maeve Adams

5. "Hunger is not a postponable want": Hannah More’s charity reconsidered

Kerri Andrews

6. Hannah More’s Percy, A Tragedy, in the Spanish and French Theatrical Contexts

Begoña Lasa Álvarez

7. The Bluestocking and the Preacher: the Bifurcated Reception of Hannah More in Scandinavia

Marie Nedregotten Sørbø

8. Hannah More’s Sympathetic Strategies: Coelebs in Search of a Wife and the Evangelical Novel

Nicky Lloyd

9. Books and Readers in Hannah More’s Coelebs in Search of a Wife

Joanna Maciulewicz

10. Hannah More Rediscoveries: Letters, Literary Manuscripts, and Inscribed Books

Nicholas D. Smith

11. Bringing More to the Fore: Championing the life and work of Hannah More in Schools and Community Education

Joanne Edwards

　

12. Hannah More’s Energetic Sociality: Enthusiasms and Consequences

Patricia A. Demers

An Extended Sermon on Hannah More

Rev Paula Hollingsworth

O autorze

Kerri Andrews is Reader in Women’s Literature and Textual Editing at Edge Hill University.

Sue Edney is a Lecturer teaching at Bristol University.

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