Women in the eighteenth century : constructions of femininity /
Complementing the current upsurge in feminist writing on the eighteenth century, and giving students the chance to make their own re-readings of texts, this anthology gathers together a range of material from conduct manuals to medical texts.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1990.
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Colección: | World and word series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Conduct. from The lady's New-Year's gift, or, Advice to a daughter / George Savile, Marquis of Halifax
- from Letters moral and entertaining, in prose and verse / [Elizabeth Singer Rowe]
- from A letter of genteel and moral advice to a young lady / Wetenhall Wilkes
- from Familiar letters on important occasions / Samuel Richardson
- from The female spectator, Vol. 1, Book 1 / [Eliza Haywood]
- from A father's legacy to his daughters / John Gregory
- from Thoughts on the education of daughters : with reflections on female conduct, in the more important duties of life / Mary Wollstonecraft.
- Sexuality. from Love given o're, or, A satyr against the pride, lust, and inconstancy / [Robert Gould]
- from A modest defence of public stews, or, An essay upon whoring / 'Colonel Harry Mordaunt' [Bernard Mandeville]
- from Some considerations upon street-walkers with a proposal for lessening the present number of them / Daniel Defoe
- from The female rake, or, Modern fine lady : an epistle from Libertina to Sylvia / [Joseph Dorman]
- from The present state of matrimony, or, the Real causes of conjugal infidelity and unhappy marriages / 'Philogamus'
- from The pleasures of conjugal love explained : in an essay concerning human generation / A physician
- from The ladies dispensatory, or, Every woman her own physician
- from A medicinal dictionary / R. James M.D.
- from An account of the rise, progress, and present state of the Magdalen Hospital, for the reception of penitent prostitutes : together with Dr. Dodd's sermons
- 'Practitioner in midwifery', from The pupil of nature, or Candid advice to the fair sex / Martha Mears.
- Education. from Treatise on the education of daughters / Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénélon, trans. Rev. T.F. Dibdin,
- from Letters on the improvement of the mind, addressed to a young lady / Hester Chapone
- from Essays moral and literary / Vicesimus Knox
- from Thoughts on the education of daughters : with reflections on female conduct, in the more important duties of life / Mary Wollstonecraft
- from Letters on education / Catherine Macaulay Graham
- from Plans of education; with remarks on the systems of other writers / Clara Reeve
- from Letters on the female mind, its powers and pursuits : addressed to Miss H.M. Williams, with particular reference to her letters from France / Laetitia Matilda Hawkins
- from Reflections on the present condition of the female sex : with suggestions for its improvement / Priscilla Wakefield
- from Strictures on the modern system of female education / Hannah More.
- Writing. Self-images. from Poems on several occasions. Written by Philomela / [Elizabeth Singer Rowe]
- from Essays upon several subjects in prose and verse / Mary Chudleigh
- from The adventures of Rivella, or, The history of the writer of Atalantis / [Mary] Delarivière Manley
- from Lasselia, or, The self-abandon'd : a novel / Eliza Haywood
- from The woman's labour : an epistle to Mr. Stephen Duck in answer to his late poem, called The thresher's labour / Mary Collier
- from A letter to such of the servants of Christ, who may have any scruple about the lawfulness of printing any thing written by a woman / 'A.D.' [Anne Dutton]
- from An apology for the conduct of Mrs. Teresia Constantia Phillips more particularly that part of it which relates to her marriage with an eminent Dutch merchant / Teresia Constantia Phillips
- from A narrative of the life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke / Charlotte Charke
- from Works / Susanna Centlivre.
- Writing. Public images. from The feminiad : a poem / John Duncombe
- from Monthly review, 18
- from Critical review, 13
- from Monthly review, 20
- from Sermons to young women / James Fordyce
- from Critical review, 27
- from Monthly review, 48
- from Monthly review, 48
- from The female advocate : a poem : occasioned by reading Mr. Duncombe's Feminead / Mary Scott
- from The progress of romance / Clara Reeve
- from The unsex'd females : a poem / Richard Polwhele.
- Feminisms. from A serious proposal to the ladies, for the advancement of their true and greatest interest / Mary Astell
- from An essay in defence of the female sex
- from The hardships of the English laws in relation to wives
- 'Sophia', from Beauty's triumph, or, The superiority of the fair sex invincibly proved, 1751 ; Part one, Woman not inferior to man, 1739
- from Appeal to the men of Great Britain in behalf of the women / Mary Hays
- from A letter to the women of England, on the injustice of mental subordination / 'Anne Frances Randall' [Mary Robinson].