A feminine enlightenment : British women writers and the philosophy of progress, 1759-1820
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A feminine enlightenment : British women writers and the philosophy of progress, 1759-1820
（Edinburgh critical studies in romanticism）
Edinburgh University Press, c2015
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Bibliography: p. [193]-201
Includes index
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: hardback ISBN 9780748695942
内容説明
This book revises established understandings of British women writers' contributions to Enlightenment narratives of social and historical progress. Drawing on original archival research, A Feminine Enlightenment argues that women writers shaped Enlightenment conversations regarding the role of emotion and gender in the civilizing process. From the letters and poetry exchanged between first and second generation Bluestockings and Scottish literati in the mid 18th century to the gothic and historical novels of the early Romantic era, the study tracks women writers' contributions to theorizing the civilizing process. It demonstrates that the conversations in the Bluestocking salons of the 1760s and 1770s restaged and often anticipated the theories of sociability and sentiment developed by Scottish literati such as Adam Smith and James Millar. Likewise, Catherine Talbot's and Anna Seward's Bluestocking poetry, which was inspired by James Macpherson's Ossian poems, tested alternative relationships between historical progress and the cultivation of emotion.
It also shows that Scottish theories of progress exerted a shaping influence on Ann Radcliffe's gothic novels and Maria Edgeworth's historical fiction. Their novelistic explorations were informed, suggests the author, by their own readings of the comparative studies of progress that they found in Scottish poetry and historiography. It establishes the centrality of gender to Enlightenment discussions of social and historical development. It uncovers evidence of women writers' participation in the Scottish Enlightenment's theorization of sentiment and historical progress. It provides literary and historical background for ongoing discussions of the history of emotion and the study of affect.
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: paperback ISBN 9781474423151
内容説明
Drawing on original archival research, A Feminine Enlightenment argues that women writers shaped Enlightenment conversations regarding the role of sentiment and gender in the civilizing process. By reading women's literature alongside history and philosophy and moving between the 18th century and Romantic era, JoEllen DeLucia challenges conventional historical and generic boundaries. Beginning with Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), she tracks discussions of women's progress from the rarified atmosphere of mid- 18th-century Bluestocking salons and the masculine domain of the Scottish university system to the popular Minerva Press novels of the early 19th century. Ultimately, this study positions feminine genres such as the Gothic romance and Bluestocking poetry, usually seen as outliers in a masculine Age of Reason, as essential to understanding emotion's role in Enlightenment narratives of progress.
The effect of this study is twofold: to show how developments in women's literature reflected and engaged with Enlightenment discussions of emotion, sentiment, and commercial and imperial expansion and to provide new literary and historical contexts for contemporary conversations that continue to use "women's progress" to assign cultures and societies around the globe a place in universalising schemas of development.
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