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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
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.
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