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Gender and enlightenment culture in eighteenth-century Scotland / Rosalind Carr.
LIBRA DA812 .C37 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carr, Rosalind, author.
- Series:
- Scottish historical review monographs series ; no. 22.
- Scottish historical review monographs series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enlightenment--Scotland.
- Enlightenment.
- Sex role.
- History.
- Scotland.
- Sex role--Scotland--History--18th century.
- Scotland--History--18th century.
- Scotland--Social life and customs--18th century.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 205 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2014]
- Summary:
- What role did gender play in the Scottish Enlightenment? Combining intellectual and cultural history, this book explores how men and women experienced the Scottish Enlightenment. It examines Scotland in a European context, investigating ideologies of gender and cultural practices among the urban elites of Scotland in the 18th century.
- Contents:
- Masculinity, homosociality and intellectual culture
- Women and intellectual culture
- Urbane and urban sociability in Enlightenment Edinburgh
- Enlightened violence? Elite manhood and the duel.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-196) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780748646425
- 0748646426
- OCLC:
- 874446568
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