Women writers and the Edinburgh enlightenment / Pam Perkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perkins, Pamela Ann.

Series:

Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; v. 15.

Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; v. 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scottish fiction--Women authors.

Scottish fiction.

Hamilton, Elizabeth, 1756?-1816--Criticism and interpretation.

Hamilton, Elizabeth.

Grant, Anne MacVicar, 1755-1838--Criticism and interpretation.

Grant, Anne MacVicar.

Johnstone, C. I. (Christian Isobel), 1781-1857--Criticism and interpretation.

Johnstone, C. I.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume provides an overview of women writers in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Edinburgh literary world. Its main focus is on the careers of three women – Elizabeth Hamilton, Anne Grant, and Christian Isobel Johnstone – who were both successful and influential in their own day, although they have tended to be overlooked in later literary history. Hamilton’s work is discussed in the contexts of her lifelong interest in moral philosophy and educational theory, while Grant, admired in her day for her letters, essays, and poetry about the Highlands, is read through eighteenth-century theories of cultural history and primitivism. Johnstone, probably the most obscure of the three today, was perhaps the most influential at the time because of her role as editor of a series of political periodicals; her fiction and journalistic work is examined in the context of the early nineteenth-century Edinburgh magazines.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Enlightening the Female Mind: Education, Sociability, and the Literary Woman in the Work of Elizabeth Hamilton

“Incongruous Things”: Primitivism and Professionalism in the Work of Anne Grant

“Scarcely Known to Fame”: The Literary Identities of Christian Isobel Johnstone

Modesty, Money, and Nostalgia: Narratives of Women’s Writing in Edinburgh’s “Age of Greatness”

Bibliography

Index

The Cottagers of Glenburnie by Elizabeth Hamilton.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-79311-X

9786612793110

90-420-3138-7

OCLC:

670411612

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042031388 DOI