During the second half of the eighteenth century, the social role of educated women and the nature of domesticity were the focus of widespread debate in Britain. The emergence of an identifiably feminist voice in that debate is the subject of Harriet Guest's new study, which explores how small changes in the meaning of patriotism and the relations between public and private categories permitted educated British women to imagine themselves as political subjects. "Small Change" considers the celebration of learned women as tokens of national progress in the context of a commercial...
During the second half of the eighteenth century, the social role of educated women and the nature of domesticity were the focus of widespread deba...
The artist William Hodges accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage to the South Pacific in 1772 5. His extraordinarily vivid images, read against the fascinating journals of Cook and his companions, reveal as much about European cultures and historiography as about the peoples they visited. In this lively and original book, Harriet Guest discusses Hodges's dramatic landscapes and portraits alongside written accounts of the voyages and in the context of the theories of civilisation which shaped European perceptions theories drawn from the works of philosophers of the Scottish...
The artist William Hodges accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage to the South Pacific in 1772 5. His extraordinarily vivid images, read against...
