Author: Mary Hays
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Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Letters and Essays, Moral, and Miscellaneous
Author: Mary Hays
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Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Pages : 294
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Letters and Essays, Moral, and Miscellaneous
Author: Mary Hays
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Bibliotheca Britannica: Subjects
Author: Robert Watt
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 954
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 954
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Mary Hays (1759-1843)
Author: Gina Luria Walker
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351125850
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Mary Hays, reformist, novelist, and innovative thinker, has been waiting two hundred years to be judged in a fair, scholarly, and comprehensive way. During her lifetime and long after, her role in the ongoing reformist debates in England at the end of the eighteenth century, intensified by the French Revolution, served as a lightening rod for opponents who attacked her controversial stance on women's intellectual competence and human rights. The author's intellectual history of Hays finally makes the case for her importance as an innovator. She was a feminist thinker who advanced notions of tolerance that included women, an educator who broke new ground for female autodidacts, a philosophical commentator who translated Enlightenment ideas for a burgeoning female audience, a Dissenting historiographer who reinvented 'female biography,' and a writer of deliberately experimental fiction, including the roman à clef Memoirs of Emma Courtney. The author approaches Hays from several disciplinary perspectives-historical, biographical, literary, critical, theological, and political-to elucidate the multiple ways in which Hays contributed and responded to, and influenced and was influenced by, the most significant issues and figures of her time.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351125850
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Mary Hays, reformist, novelist, and innovative thinker, has been waiting two hundred years to be judged in a fair, scholarly, and comprehensive way. During her lifetime and long after, her role in the ongoing reformist debates in England at the end of the eighteenth century, intensified by the French Revolution, served as a lightening rod for opponents who attacked her controversial stance on women's intellectual competence and human rights. The author's intellectual history of Hays finally makes the case for her importance as an innovator. She was a feminist thinker who advanced notions of tolerance that included women, an educator who broke new ground for female autodidacts, a philosophical commentator who translated Enlightenment ideas for a burgeoning female audience, a Dissenting historiographer who reinvented 'female biography,' and a writer of deliberately experimental fiction, including the roman à clef Memoirs of Emma Courtney. The author approaches Hays from several disciplinary perspectives-historical, biographical, literary, critical, theological, and political-to elucidate the multiple ways in which Hays contributed and responded to, and influenced and was influenced by, the most significant issues and figures of her time.
Catalogue
Author: Michigan State Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Pages : 312
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The Victim of Prejudice - Second Edition
Author: Mary Hays
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770482636
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 307
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Mary Hays was an outspoken Radical intellectual in the turbulent decade of the 1790’s. She argued vehemently for the need to recognise the moral and rational qualities of women, the necessity of a better system of education for girls, and the importance of giving women without fortunes a career without ‘servitude in prostitution.’ The Victim of Prejudice—Hays’ second novel, first published in 1799—is a powerful indictment of man-made institutions such as the courts and legislative systems which favour persons of wealth and rank. In the novel the metaphor of women’s confinement becomes real as the heroine’s worst nightmares, her horrors and sense of helplessness become a physical reality. The Victim of Prejudice is of great interest for its strong feminist content, and it is both powerful and moving as a literary work; this edition makes this important late eighteenth-century text again available to a wide readership.
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770482636
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 307
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Mary Hays was an outspoken Radical intellectual in the turbulent decade of the 1790’s. She argued vehemently for the need to recognise the moral and rational qualities of women, the necessity of a better system of education for girls, and the importance of giving women without fortunes a career without ‘servitude in prostitution.’ The Victim of Prejudice—Hays’ second novel, first published in 1799—is a powerful indictment of man-made institutions such as the courts and legislative systems which favour persons of wealth and rank. In the novel the metaphor of women’s confinement becomes real as the heroine’s worst nightmares, her horrors and sense of helplessness become a physical reality. The Victim of Prejudice is of great interest for its strong feminist content, and it is both powerful and moving as a literary work; this edition makes this important late eighteenth-century text again available to a wide readership.
Alphabetical and Analytical Catalogue of the Library of the University of Vermont, Burlington
Author: University of Vermont. Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Eighteenth-Century Literary Affections
Author: Louise Joy
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030460088
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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This book assesses the mediating role played by 'affections' in eighteenth-century contestations about reason and passion, questioning their availability and desirability outside textual form. It examines the formulation and idealization of this affective category in works by Isaac Watts, Lord Shaftesbury, Mary Hays, William Godwin, Helen Maria Williams, and William Wordsworth. Part I outlines how affections are invested with utopian potential in theology, moral philosophy, and criticism, re-imagining what it might mean to know emotion. Part II considers attempts of writers at the end of the period to draw affections into literature as a means of negotiating a middle way between realism and idealism, expressivism and didacticism, particularity and abstraction, subjectivity and objectivity, femininity and masculinity, radicalism and conservatism, and the foreign and the domestic.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030460088
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This book assesses the mediating role played by 'affections' in eighteenth-century contestations about reason and passion, questioning their availability and desirability outside textual form. It examines the formulation and idealization of this affective category in works by Isaac Watts, Lord Shaftesbury, Mary Hays, William Godwin, Helen Maria Williams, and William Wordsworth. Part I outlines how affections are invested with utopian potential in theology, moral philosophy, and criticism, re-imagining what it might mean to know emotion. Part II considers attempts of writers at the end of the period to draw affections into literature as a means of negotiating a middle way between realism and idealism, expressivism and didacticism, particularity and abstraction, subjectivity and objectivity, femininity and masculinity, radicalism and conservatism, and the foreign and the domestic.
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Public Library and to the City Library of Norwich
Author: Norwich (England). Public Libraries
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Languages : en
Pages : 704
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Pages : 704
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Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature: M-P
Author: Samuel Halkett
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, English
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, English
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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