Catharine Macaulay S Republican Enlightenment

Author : Karen Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 418 pages
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Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000066111

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Catharine Macaulay's Republican Enlightenment by Karen Green Pdf

The ‘celebrated’ Catharine Macaulay was both lauded and execrated during the eighteenth century for her republican politics and her unconventional, second marriage. This comprehensive biography in the 'life and letters' tradition situates her works in their political and social contexts and offers an unprecedented, detailed account of the content and influence of her writing, the arguments she developed in her eight-volume history of England and her other political, ethical, and educational works. Her disagreements with conservative opponents, David Hume, Edmund Burke, and Samuel Johnson are developed in detail, as is her influence on more progressive admirers such as Thomas Jefferson, Jacques-Pierre Brissot, Mercy Otis Warren, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Macaulay emerges as a coherent and influential political voice, whose attitudes and aspirations were characteristic of those enlightenment republicans who grounded their progressive politics in rational religion. She looked back to the seventeenth-century levellers and parliamentarians as important precursors who had advocated the liberty and political rights she aspired to see implemented in Great Britain, America, and France. Her defence of republican liberty and the equal rights of men offers an important corrective to some contemporary accounts of the character and origins of democratic republicanism during this crucial period.

Author : Bridget Hill
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015025380224

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The Republican Virago by Bridget Hill Pdf

Catharine Macaulay represented everything the eighteenth century abhorred in a woman. She was learned, politically minded, actively engaged with public and philosophical issues of the day. Her private life, and especially her 'imprudent' second marriage to a man twenty-six years her junior,led to much malicious gossip. Yet in her lifetime she also won considerable fame. The author of an eight-volume history of England in the seventeenth century, a republican, a follower of John Wilkes, and a political polemicist, not only did she influence the nature of eighteenth-century radicalismin England, but she played an important contributory role in the shaping of American revolutionary ideology. Long before the Revolution she was also closely concerned with events in France. Both Mirabeau and Brissot were familiar with her History and much influenced by it; translated into French it was welcomed by patriots as an effective response to the counter-revolutionary influence of Hume's history. This is the first major biographical study of this remarkable and influential figure. For a woman to make such an impact in the restrictive environment of eighteenth-century England was astonishing: no one interested in the development of English radicalism or revolutionary politics can afford toignore Catharine Macaulay.

Author : Catharine Macaulay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
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Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009307468

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Catharine Macaulay: Political Writings by Catharine Macaulay Pdf

The writings of republican historian and political pamphleteer Catharine Macaulay (1731–91) played a central role in debates about political reform in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution. A critical reader of Hume's bestselling History of England, she broke new ground in historiography by defending the regicide of Charles I and became an inspiration for many luminaries of the American and French revolutions. While her historical and political works engaged with thinkers from Hobbes and Locke to Bolingbroke and Burke, she also wrote about religion, philosophy, education and animal rights. Influencing Wollstonecraft and proto-feminism, she argued that there were no moral differences between men and women and that boys and girls should receive the same education. This book is the first scholarly edition of Catharine Macaulay's published writings and includes all her known pamphlets along with extensive selections from her longer historical and political works.

Author : Karen Green
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190934484

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The Correspondence of Catharine Macaulay by Karen Green Pdf

Catharine Macaulay was a celebrated republican historian, whose account of the reasons for the seventeenth-century English Revolution, the parliamentary period, and its aftermath was widely read by the mothers and fathers of American Independence and by central players in the French Revolution. As well as publishing her eight volume history, spanning the period from the accession of James I to the Glorious Revolution of 1688, she wrote political pamphlets, offered a sketch of a republican constitution for Corsica, advocated parliamentary reform, and published a response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. Her Letters on Education of 1790 made a decisive impact on the thought of Mary Wollstonecraft, and her Treatise on the Immutability of Moral Truth opposed the skeptical and utilitarian attitudes being developed by Hume and others. This volume brings together for the first time all the available letters between her and her wide-ranging correspondents, who include George Washington, John Adams, Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, James Otis, Benjamin Rush, David Hume, James Boswell, Thomas Hollis, John Wilkes, Horace Walpole, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville, and many other luminaries of the eighteenth-century enlightenment. It includes an extended introduction to her life and works and offers a unique insight into the thinking of her friends and correspondents during the period between 1760 and 1790, the crucible for the development of modern representative democracies. The Correspondence of Catharine Macaulay will appeal to scholars of philosophy, political thought, women's studies, and eighteenth-century history, as well as those interested in the development of democratic ideas.

Author : Karen Green
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190934453

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The Correspondence of Catharine Macaulay by Karen Green Pdf

This volume brings together all the available letters between historian Catharine Macaulay and a number of eighteenth-century luminaries, including George Washington, David Hume, and Mary Wollstonecraft. It includes an extended introduction by the editor which offers unique insights into Macaulay's life and the thinking of her friends and correspondents.

Author : Catharine Macaulay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781108062954

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Letters on Education by Catharine Macaulay Pdf

Published in 1790, this work presents the historian Catharine Macaulay's enlightened views on the equal education of girls and boys.

Author : B. Taylor,S. Knott
Publisher : Springer
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230554801

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Women, Gender and Enlightenment by B. Taylor,S. Knott Pdf

Did women have an Enlightenment? This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the controversial, innovative role played by women and gender issues in the age of light.

Author : Sandrine Bergès,Alan Coffee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191079429

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The Social and Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft by Sandrine Bergès,Alan Coffee Pdf

Interest in the contribution made by women to the history of philosophy is burgeoning. Intense research is underway to recover their works which have been lost or overlooked. At the forefront of this revival is Mary Wollstonecraft. While she has long been studied by feminists, and later discovered by political scientists, philosophers themselves have only recently begun to recognise the value of her work for their discipline. This volume brings together new essays from leading scholars, which explore Wollstonecraft's range as a moral and political philosopher of note, both taking a historical perspective and applying her thinking to current academic debates. Subjects include Wollstonecraft's ideas on love and respect, friendship and marriage, motherhood, property in the person, and virtue and the emotions, as well as the application her thought has for current thinking on relational autonomy, and animal and children's rights. A major theme within the book places her within the republican tradition of political theory and analyses the contribution she makes to its conceptual resources.

Author : Jacqueline Broad,Karen Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521888172

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A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1700 by Jacqueline Broad,Karen Green Pdf

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Author : Karen Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107450020

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A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1700-1800 by Karen Green Pdf

During the eighteenth century, elite women participated in the philosophical, scientific, and political controversies that resulted in the overthrow of monarchy, the reconceptualisation of marriage, and the emergence of modern, democratic institutions. In this comprehensive study, Karen Green outlines and discusses the ideas and arguments of these women, exploring the development of their distinctive and contrasting political positions, and their engagement with the works of political thinkers such as Hobbes, Locke, Mandeville and Rousseau. Her exploration ranges across Europe from England through France, Italy, Germany and Russia, and discusses thinkers including Mary Astell, Emilie Du Châtelet, Luise Kulmus-Gottsched and Elisabetta Caminer Turra. This study demonstrates the depth of women's contributions to eighteenth-century political debates, recovering their historical significance and deepening our understanding of this period in intellectual history. It will provide an essential resource for readers in political philosophy, political theory, intellectual history, and women's studies.

Author : Catharine Macaulay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1790
Category : France
ISBN : BL:A0021564455

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Observations on the Reflections of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, on the Revolution in France by Catharine Macaulay Pdf

Author : Devoney Looser
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801887055

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Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850 by Devoney Looser Pdf

This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century. Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim -- despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions. Though these remarkable women wrote and published well into old age, Looser sees in their late careers the necessity of choosing among several different paths. These included receding into the background as authors of "classics," adapting to grandmotherly standards of behavior, attempting to reshape masculinized conceptions of aged wisdom, or trying to create entirely new categories for older women writers. In assessing how these writers affected and were affected by the culture in which they lived, and in examining their varied reactions to the prospect of aging, Looser constructs careful portraits of each of her Subjects and explains why many turned toward retrospection in their later works. In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies.

Author : Karen O'Brien,Karen Elisabeth O'Brien
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521773492

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Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Karen O'Brien,Karen Elisabeth O'Brien Pdf

An original study of how Enlightenment ideas shaped the lives of women and the work of eighteenth-century women writers.

Author : Macaulay
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Letters on Education by Macaulay Pdf

Author : Jonathan Israel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691195933

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The Expanding Blaze by Jonathan Israel Pdf

"A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the Americas, the Expanding Blaze is a sweeping history of how the American Revolution inspired revolutions throughout Europe and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Jonathan Israel, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment, shows how the radical ideas of American founders such as Paine, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, and Monroe set the pattern for democratic revolutions, movements, and constitutions in France, Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Greece, Canada, Haiti, Brazil, and Spanish America. The Expanding Blaze reminds us that the American Revolution was an astonishingly radical event--and that it didn't end with the transformation and independence of America. Rather, the revolution continued to reverberate in Europe and the Americas for the next three-quarters of a century. This comprehensive history of the revolution's international influence traces how American efforts to implement Radical Enlightenment ideas--including the destruction of the old regime and the promotion of democratic republicanism, self-government, and liberty--helped drive revolutions abroad, as foreign leaders explicitly followed the American example and espoused American democratic values. The first major new intellectual history of the age of democratic revolution in decades, The Expanding Blaze returns the American Revolution to its global context."--