Mary Sarah Bilder

Gebundenes Buch

Female Genius

Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution

Beschreibung

In this provocative new biography, Mary Sarah Bilder looks to the 1780s - the Age of the Constitution - to investigate the rise of a radical new idea in the English-speaking world: female genius. Bilder finds the perfect exemplar of this phenomenon in English-born Eliza Harriot Barons O'Connor.

Autor

Mary Sarah Bilder is Founders Professor of Law at Boston College Law School and author of the Bancroft Prize-winning Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Virginia Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 165mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 634g
• ISBN-13: 9780813947198
• ISBN-10: 0813947197
• Artikelnr.: 62894934