A Feminine Enlightenment : : British Women Writers and the Philosophy of Progress, 1759-1820 / / JoEllen DeLucia.

Revises established understandings of British women writers’ contributions to Enlightenment narratives of social and historical progress GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748695942','ISBN:9780748695959']);Drawing on original archival research, A Feminine Enlightenment argue...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2015
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism : ECSR
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: A Feminine Enlightenment?
  • 1. The Progress of Feeling: The Ossian Poems and Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments
  • 2. Ossianic History and Bluestocking Feminism
  • 3. Queering Progress: Anna Seward and Llangollen Vale
  • 4. Poetry, Paratext, and History in Radcliffe’s Gothic
  • 5. Stadial Fiction or the Progress of Taste
  • Epilogue: Women Writers in the Age of Ossian
  • Bibliography
  • Index