A feminine Enlightenment : British women writers and the philosophy of progress, 1759-1820 /

Drawing on her archival research, JoEllen DeLucia argues that women writers shaped Enlightenment conversations regarding the role of sentiment and gender in the civilising process. By reading women's literature alongside history and philosophy and moving between the 18th century and Romantic er...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: DeLucia, JoEllen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2017.
Colección:Edinburgh critical studies in romanticism.
Temas:
1700-1899
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Philosophy in literature.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes anglais > Histoire et critique.
Philosophie dans la littérature.
English literature > Women authors
English literature
Philosophy in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: A feminine enlightenment?
  • The progress of feeling: The Ossian poems and Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments
  • Ossiania history and Bluestocking feminism
  • Queering progress: Anna Seward and Llangollen Vale
  • Poetry, paratext, and history in Radcliffe's gothic
  • Stadial fiction or the progress of taste
  • Epilogue: Women writers in the age of Ossian.

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