Mothers of the nation : women's political writing in England, 1780-1830

著者

• Mellor, Anne Kostelanetz

書誌事項

Mothers of the nation : women's political writing in England, 1780-1830

Anne K. Mellor

（Women of letters / Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, general editors）

Indiana University Press, 2002, c2000

1st pbk. ed

• : pbk

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-163) and index

内容説明・目次

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.

目次

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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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA88081157
• ISBN:
  • 025321369X
• LCCN: 99047328
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Bloomington
• ページ数/冊数: 172 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : PR468.P57
  • DC21 : 820.9/358
• 件名:
  • LCSH : English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Women and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1820
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1820-1830
  • LCSH : Women authors, English -- Political and social views
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA10549330