Women, Writing and the Public Sphere, 1700–1830
Clíona Ó Gallchoir editor Elizabeth Eger editor Charlotte Grant editor Penny Warburton editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:2nd Nov '06
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An international team of specialists examine the dynamic relation between women and the public sphere.
In this book, an international team of specialists examine the dynamic relation between women and the public sphere between 1700 and 1830. Drawing on literary and visual evidence, contributors highlight the range of women's cultural activity during the period, from historiography, publishing and translation to philosophical and political writing.In this interdisciplinary volume, an international team of specialists examine the dynamic relation between women and the public sphere between 1700 and 1830. Drawing on literary and visual evidence, contributors highlight the range and diversity of women's cultural activity during the period, from historiography, publishing and translation to philosophical and political writing. Women, Writing and the Public Sphere examines the history of the public spaces women occupied, raising questions of scandal and display, improvement, virtue and morality in the context of the production and consumption of culture by women in eighteenth-century England. The contribution of educated women to the British Enlightenment and the role of translation and exchange between European intellectual movements in shaping ideas of nationhood is also addressed. This book offers a comprehensive account of women's philosophical and political reflections on the nature of their place in the public sphere.
"Nuanced and expertly argued, this collection clearly makes an important contribution to the scholarship of separate spheres." Albion
"The twelve essays included in Women, Writing and the Public Sphere represent a remarkable range of research and recovery work... illuminating and scrupulously researched..." Jill Heyd-Stevenson, Wordsworth Circle
"Fascinating." Studies in English Literature
ISBN: 9780521025805
Dimensions: 228mm x 152mm x 22mm
Weight: 508g
336 pages