Mothers of the nation : women's political writing in England, 1780-1830
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Mothers of the nation : women's political writing in England, 1780-1830
（Women of letters / Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar general editors）
Indiana University Press, c2000
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-163) and index
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: pbk ISBN 9780253213693
内容説明
British women writers were enormously influential in the creation of public opinion and political ideology during the years from 1780 to 1830. Anne Mellor demonstrates the many ways in which they attempted to shape British public policy and cultural behavior in the areas of religious and governmental reform, education, philanthropy, and patterns of consumption. She argues that the theoretical paradigm of the "doctrine of the separate spheres"may no longer be valid. According to this view, British society was divided into distinctly differentiated and gendered spheres of public versus private activities in the 18th and 19th centuries,
Surveying all the genres of literature-drama, poetry, fiction, non-fiction prose, and literary criticism-Mellor shows how women writers promoted a new concept of the ideal woman as rationally educated, sexually self-disciplined, and above all, virtuous. This New Woman, these writers said, was better suited to govern the nation than were its current fiscally irresponsible, lecherous, and corruptible male rulers.
Beginning with Hannah More, Mellor argues that women writers too often dismissed as conservative or retrogressive instead promoted a revolution in cultural mores or manners. She discusses writers as diverse as Elizabeth Inchbald, Hannah Cowley, and Joanna Baillie; as Charlotte Smith, Anna Barbauld, and Lucy Aikin; as Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Reeve, and Anna Seward; and concludes with extended analyses of Charlotte Smith's Desmond and Jane Austen's Persuasion. She thus documents women writers' full participation in that very discursive public sphere which Habermas so famously restricted to men of property. Moreover, the new career of philanthropy defined by Hannah More provided a practical means by which women of all classes could actively construct a new British civil society, and thus become the mothers not only of individual households but of the nation as a whole.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Women and the Public Sphere in England, 1780-1830
1. Hannah More, Revolutionary Reformer
2. Theatre as the School of Virtue
3. Women's Political Poetry
4. Literary Criticism, Cultural Authority, and The Rise of the Novel
5. The Politics of Fiction
Desmond
Persuasion
Postscript: The Politics of Modernity
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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ISBN 9780253337139
内容説明
"Mothers of the Nation" argues that British women writers were enormously influential in the creation of public opinion and political ideology during the years from 1780 to 1830. This book shows the many ways in which women writers attempted to shape British public policy and cultural behaviour in the realms of religious and governmental reform, education, philanthropy, and patterns of consumption. Given this wealth and variety of women's political writing, Mellor further argues that the theoretical paradigm of the doctrine of the separate spheres," the view that British society was divided into distinctly differentiated and gendered spheres of public versus private activities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, may no longer be valid. Surveying all the genres of literature - drama, poetry, fiction, non-fiction prose, and literary criticism - this book shows how women writers promoted a new concept of the ideal woman as rationally educated, sexually self-disciplined, and above all, virtuous. This 'New Woman', these writers argue, is better suited to govern the nation than its current fiscally irresponsible, lecherous, and corruptible male rulers.
Beginning with Hannah More, Mellor argues that women writers too often dismissed as conservative or retrogressive instead promoted a revolution in cultural mores or manners. She discusses writers as diverse as Elizabeth Inchbald, Hannah Cowley and Joanna Baillie, as Charlotte Smith, Anna Barbauld and Lucy Aikin, as Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Reeve and Anna Seward, and concludes with extended analyses of Charlotte Smith's "Desmond" and Jane Austen's "Persuasion". She thus documents women writers' full participation in that very discursive public sphere which Habermas so famously restricted to men of property. Moreover, the new career of philanthropy defined by Hannah More provided a practical means by which women of all classes could actively construct a new British civil society, and thus become the mothers not only of individual households but of the nation as a whole.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: Women and the Public Sphere in England, 1780-1830 1. Hannah More, Revolutionary Reformer 2. Theatre as the School of Virtue 3. Women's Political Poetry 4. Literary Criticism, Cultural Authority and The Rise of the Novel 5. The Politics of Fiction : I - Desmond : II - Persuasion Postscript: The Politics of Modernity Notes Works Cited Index
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