Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain

ISBN-13: 9780521774277 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 320 str.

Karen (Univ O'brien

Opis

An original study of how Enlightenment ideas shaped the lives of women and the work of eighteenth-century women writers.

Recenzje

'O'Brien employs a brilliant combination of exposition and argumentation.' Clio

Spis treści

Introduction: the progress of society; 1. Anglican Whig feminism in England, 1690–1760: self-love, reason and social benevolence; 2. From savage to Scotswoman: the history of femininity; 3. Roman, Gothic and medieval women: the historicisation of womanhood, 1750–c.1804; 4. Catharine Macaulay's Histories of England: liberty, civilisation and the female historian; 5. Good manners and partial civilisation in the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft; 6. The history women and the population men, 1760–1830; Bibliography.