Women and Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Britain / Karen O'Brien.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Brien, Karen (Karen Elisabeth)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

English literature--Women authors.

Women in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Women--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Women.

Sex role--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Sex role.

Feminism--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Feminism.

Enlightenment--Great Britain.

Enlightenment.

History.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century.

Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

viii, 310 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Women and Enlightenment in 18th-century Britain

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Contents:

Anglican Whig feminism in England, 1690-1760 : self-love, reason and social benevolence

From savage to Scotswoman : the history of femininity

Roman, Gothic and medieval women : the historicisation of womanhood, 1750-c.1804

Catharine Macaulay's histories of England : liberty, civilisation and the female historian

Good manners and partial civilisation in the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft

The history women and the population men, 1760-1830.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-304) and index.

ISBN:

9780521773492

0521773490

9780521774277

0521774276

OCLC:

261177573