Author: Teresa Barnard
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317171373
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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Highlighting the remarkable women who found ways around the constraints placed on their intellectual growth, this collection of essays shows how their persistence opened up attributes of potent female imagination, radical endeavour, literary vigour, and self-education that compares well with male intellectual achievement in the long eighteenth century. Disseminating their knowledge through literary and documentary prose with unapologetic self-confidence, women such as Anna Barbauld, Anna Seward, Elizabeth Inchbald and Joanna Baillie usurped subjects perceived as masculine to contribute to scientific, political, philosophical and theological debate and progress. This multifaceted exploration goes beyond traditional readings of women’s creativity to add fresh, at times controversial, insights into the female view of the intellectual world. Bringing together leading experts on British women’s lives, work and writings, the volume seeks to rediscover women’s appropriations of masculine disciplines and to examine their interventions into the intellectual world. Through their engagement with a unique perspective on women’s lives and achievements, the essays make important contributions to the existing body of knowledge in this important area that will inform future scholarship.
Author: J. Batchelor
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230595979
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 201
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A constellation of new essays on authorship, politics and history, British Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century: Authorship, Politics and History presents the latest thinking about the debates raised by scholarship on gender and women's writing in the long eighteenth century. The essays highlight the ways in which women writers were key to the creation of the worlds of politics and letters in the period, reading the possibilities and limits of their engagement in those worlds as more complex and nuanced than earlier paradigms would suggest. Contributors include Norma Clarke, Janet Todd, Brian Southam , Harriet Guest, Isobel Grundy and Felicity Nussbaum. Published in association with the Chawton House Library, Hampshire - for more information, visit http://www.chawton.org/
Author: Teresa Barnard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781315570327
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Author: Teresa Barnard
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers
ISBN: 9781472437464
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Author: Karen O'Brien
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521773490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
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An original study of how Enlightenment ideas shaped the lives of women and the work of eighteenth-century women writers.
Author: Megan A. Woodworth
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317145429
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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In the late eighteenth-century English novel, the question of feminism has usually been explored with respect to how women writers treat their heroines and how they engage with contemporary political debates, particularly those relating to the French Revolution. Megan Woodworth argues that women writers' ideas about their own liberty are also present in their treatment of male characters. In positing a 'Gentleman's Liberation Movement,' she suggests that Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith, Jane West, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen all used their creative powers to liberate men from the very institutions and ideas about power, society, and gender that promote the subjection of women. Their writing juxtaposes the role of women in the private spheres with men's engagement in political structures and successive wars for independence (the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic Wars). The failures associated with fighting these wars and the ideological debates surrounding them made plain, at least to these women writers, that in denying the universality of these natural freedoms, their liberating effects would be severely compromised. Thus, to win the same rights for which men fought, women writers sought to remake men as individuals freed from the tyranny of their patriarchal inheritance.
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Category : Feminists
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Devoted to the study of women from 1660 to 1817 (the so-called 'long' 18th century).
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Category : Feminists
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Author: Vivien Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521586801
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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This book, first published in 2000, is an authoritative volume of new essays on women's writing and reading in the eighteenth century.
Author: Olivier Bernier
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870992945
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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