Teresa Barnard

British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

Highlighting the remarkable women who found ways around the constraints placed on their intellectual growth, this collection shows that long eighteenth-century writers usurped subjects perceived as masculine to contribute to scientific, political, philosophical and theological debate and progress. This multifaceted volume goes beyond traditional readings of women's creativity to add fresh, at times controversial, insights into the female view of the intellectual world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9781472437457
• ISBN-10: 1472437454
• Artikelnr.: 44637481

Autorenporträt

Teresa Barnard is an independent scholar.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 An Engagement with Science: 'To bring this useful invention into
fashion in England': Mary Wortley Montagu as medical expert. The lure of
the volcano in the female literary imagination. Women's 'reason' for a
'rising generation': Mary Wollstonecraft, paediatric science and the child
of nature. Part 2 Religious Discourses: Anxiety, authorship, authority: the
maternal feminine and the divine in Hannah More's Sacred Dramas. Rethinking
surrender: Elizabeth Inchbald and the 'Catholic novel'. Veiled exegesis:
dissenting women's aesthetic approach to theological hermeneutics and
social action. Part 3 Radical Women, Politics, and Philosophy: 'A longing
to enjoy my liberty': the patronage, writings, and picturesque tours of
Elizabeth Percy, 1st Duchess of Northumberland. Coming out of the closet
and competing with John Anybody: the bold world of Joanna Baillie. 'France
is a republic': The Canterbury Tales and Harriet Lee's revolutionary
gothic.