Gender And Enlightenment Culture In Eighteenth Century Scotland

Author : Rosalind Carr
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748646432

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Gender and Enlightenment Culture in Eighteenth-Century Scotland by Rosalind Carr Pdf

Presents major new research on gender in the Scottish EnlightenmentWhat 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.The book provides an in-depth analysis of men's construction and performance of masculinity in intellectual clubs, taverns and through the violent ritual of the duel. Women are important actors in this story, and the book presents an analysis of women's contribution to Scottish Enlightenment culture, and it asks why there were no Scottish bluestockings.

Author : Deborah Simonton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134774920

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Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland by Deborah Simonton Pdf

The eighteenth century looms large in the Scottish imagination. It is a century that saw the doubling of the population, rapid urbanisation, industrial growth, the political Union of 1707, the Jacobite Rebellions and the Enlightenment - events that were intrinsic to the creation of the modern nation and to putting Scotland on the international map. The impact of the era on modern Scotland can be seen in the numerous buildings named after the luminaries of the period - Adam Smith, David Hume, William Robertson - the endorsement of Robert Burns as the national poet/hero, the preservation of the Culloden battlefield as a tourist attraction, and the physical geographies of its major towns. Yet, while it is a century that remains central to modern constructions of national identity, it is a period associated with men. Until recently, the history of women in eighteenth-century Scotland, with perhaps the honourable exception of Flora McDonald, remained unwritten. Over the last decade however, research on women and gender in Scotland has flourished and we have an increasingly full picture of women's lives at all social levels across the century. As a result, this is an appropriate moment to reflect on what we know about Scottish women during the eighteenth century, to ask how their history affects the traditional narratives of the period, and to reflect on the implications for a national history of Scotland and Scottish identity. Divided into three sections, covering women's intimate, intellectual and public lives, this interdisciplinary volume offers articles on women's work, criminal activity, clothing, family, education, writing, travel and more. Applying tools from history, art anthropology, cultural studies, and English literature, it draws on a wide-range of sources, from the written to the visual, to highlight the diversity of women's experiences and to challenge current male-centric historiographies.

Author : Lynn Abrams
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748626397

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Gender in Scottish History Since 1700 by Lynn Abrams Pdf

Scottish history is undergoing a renaissance. Everyone agrees that an understanding of our nation's history is integral to our experience of its present and the shaping of the future. But the story of Scotland's past is being told with little reference to gendered identities. Not only are women largely missing from these grand narratives, but men's experience has tended to be sublimated in intellectual, political and economic agendas. Neither femininities nor masculinities have been given much of a place in Scotland's past or in the process of nation-making. Gender in Scottish History offers a new perspective on Scotland's past since around 1700, viewing some of the main themes with a gendered perspective. It starts from the assumption that gender is integral to our understanding of the ways in which societies in the past were organised and that national histories have a tendency to be gender blind. Each chapter engages with one key theme from Scottish historiography, asking what happens when women are added to the story and how the story changes when the meanings of gendered understandings and assumptions are probed. Addressing politics, culture, religion, science, education, work, the family and identity, Gender in Scottish History proposes an alternative reading of the Scottish past which is both inclusive and recognisable.

Author : Silvia Sebastiani
Publisher : Springer
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137069795

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The Scottish Enlightenment by Silvia Sebastiani Pdf

The Scottish Enlightenment shaped a new conception of history as a gradual and universal progress from savagery to civil society. Whereas women emancipated themselves from the yoke of male-masters, men in turn acquired polite manners and became civilized. Such a conception, however, presents problematic questions: why were the Americans still savage? Why was it that the Europeans only had completed all the stages of the historic process? Could modern societies escape the destiny of earlier empires and avoid decadence? Was there a limit beyond which women's influence might result in dehumanization? The Scottish Enlightenment's legacy for modernity emerges here as a two-faced Janus, an unresolved tension between universalism and hierarchy, progress and the limits of progress.

Author : DEBORAH. SIMONTON
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138379832

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Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland by DEBORAH. SIMONTON Pdf

The eighteenth century looms large in the Scottish imagination. It is a century that saw the doubling of the population, rapid urbanisation, industrial growth, the political Union of 1707, the Jacobite Rebellions and the Enlightenment - events that were intrinsic to the creation of the modern nation and to putting Scotland on the international map. The impact of the era on modern Scotland can be seen in the numerous buildings named after the luminaries of the period - Adam Smith, David Hume, William Robertson - the endorsement of Robert Burns as the national poet/hero, the preservation of the Culloden battlefield as a tourist attraction, and the physical geographies of its major towns. Yet, while it is a century that remains central to modern constructions of national identity, it is a period associated with men. Until recently, the history of women in eighteenth-century Scotland, with perhaps the honourable exception of Flora McDonald, remained unwritten. Over the last decade however, research on women and gender in Scotland has flourished and we have an increasingly full picture of women's lives at all social levels across the century. As a result, this is an appropriate moment to reflect on what we know about Scottish women during the eighteenth century, to ask how their history affects the traditional narratives of the period, and to reflect on the implications for a national history of Scotland and Scottish identity. Divided into three sections, covering women's intimate, intellectual and public lives, this interdisciplinary volume offers articles on women's work, criminal activity, clothing, family, education, writing, travel and more. Applying tools from history, art anthropology, cultural studies, and English literature, it draws on a wide-range of sources, from the written to the visual, to highlight the diversity of women's experiences and to challenge current male-centric historiographies.

Author : Katharine Glover
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843836810

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Elite Women and Polite Society in Eighteenth-century Scotland by Katharine Glover Pdf

Women are shown to have played an important and very visible role in society at the time. Fashionable "polite" society of this period emphasised mixed-gender sociability and encouraged the visible participation of elite women in a series of urban, often public settings. Using a variety of sources (both men's and women's correspondence, accounts, bills, memoirs and other family papers), this book investigates the ways in which polite social practices and expectations influenced the experience of elite femininity in Scotland in the eighteenth century. It explores women's education and upbringing; their reading practices; the meanings of the social spaces and activities in which they engaged and how this fed over into the realm of politics; and the fashion for tourism at home and abroad. It also asks how elite women used polite social spaces and practices to extend their mental horizons and to form a sense of belonging to a public at a time when Scotland was among the most intellectually vibrant societies in Europe.

Author : Mark C. Wallace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Clubs
ISBN : 1684482704

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Association and Enlightenment by Mark C. Wallace Pdf

Author : Mark C. Wallace,Jane Rendall
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684482689

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Association and Enlightenment by Mark C. Wallace,Jane Rendall Pdf

Social clubs as they existed in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland were varied: they could be convivial, sporting, or scholarly, or they could be a significant and dynamic social force, committed to improvement and national regeneration as well as to sociability. The essays in this volume examine the complex history of clubs and societies in Scotland from 1700 to 1830. Contributors address attitudes toward associations, their meeting places and rituals, their links with the growth of the professions and with literary culture, and the ways in which they were structured by both class and gender. By widening the context in which clubs and societies are set, the collection offers a new framework for understanding them, bringing together the inheritance of the Scottish past, the unique and cohesive polite culture of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the broader context of associational patterns common to Britain, Ireland, and beyond.

Author : Ronnie Young,Ralph McLean,Kenneth Simpson
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611488012

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The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture by Ronnie Young,Ralph McLean,Kenneth Simpson Pdf

This collection of essays explores the role played by imaginative writing in the Scottish Enlightenment and its interaction with the values and activities of that movement. Across a broad range of areas via specially commissioned essays by experts in each field, the volume examines the reciprocal traffic between the groundbreaking intellectual project of eighteenth-century Scotland and the imaginative literature of the period, demonstrating that the innovations made by the Scottish literati laid the foundations for developments in imaginative writing in Scotland and further afield. In doing so, it provide a context for the widespread revaluation of the literary culture of the Scottish Enlightenment and the part that culture played in the project of Enlightenment.

Author : Karen O'Brien,Karen Elisabeth O'Brien
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Lynn Abrams
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474403917

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Nine Centuries of Man by Lynn Abrams Pdf

What did it mean to be a man in Scotland over the past nine centuries?Scotland, with its stereotypes of the kilted warrior and the industrial ahard man has long been characterised in masculine terms, but there has been little historical exploration of what masculinity actually means for men (and women) in a Scottish context. This interdisciplinary collection explores a diverse range of the multiple and changing forms of masculinities from the late eleventh to the late twentieth century, examining the ways in which Scottish society through the ages defined expectations for men and their behaviour.How men reacted to those expectations is examined through sources such as documentary materials, medieval seals, romance, poetry, begging letters, police reports and court records, charity records, oral histories and personal correspondence. Focusing upon the wide range of activities and roles undertaken by men a work, fatherhood and play, violence and war, sex and commerce a the book also illustrates the range of masculinities which affected or were internalised by men. Together, they illustrate some of the ways Scotlands gender expectations have changed over the centuries and how more generally masculinities have informed the path of Scottish history.ContributorsLynn Abrams, University of GlasgowKatie Barclay, University of AdelaideAngela Bartiem University of EdinburghRosalind Carr, University of East LondonTanya Cheadle, University of GlasgowHarriet Cornell, University of EdinburghSarah Dunnigan, University of EdinburghElizabeth Ewan, University of GuelphAlistair Fraser, University of GlasgowSergi Mainer, University of EdinburghJeffrey Meek, University of GlasgowCynthia J. Neville, Dalhousie University Janay Nugent, University of Lethbridge Tawny Paul, Northumbria University

Author : B. Taylor,S. Knott
Publisher : Springer
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Leith Davis,Janet Sorensen
Publisher : Scottish Literature International
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1908980311

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International Companion to Scottish Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century by Leith Davis,Janet Sorensen Pdf

This International Companion shows how Scotland's literary cultures, in English, Gaelic, Latin, and Scots, were transformed in the turbulent age between between 1650 to 1800.

Author : Katie Barclay
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0719095557

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Love, Intimacy and Power by Katie Barclay Pdf

Through an analysis of the correspondence of over one hundred couples from the Scottish elites across the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, this book explores how ideas around the nature of emotional intimacy, love and friendship within marriage adapted to a modernising economy and society. Patriarchy continued to be the central model for marriage across the period and as a result, women found spaces to hold power within the family, but could not translate it to power beyond the household. Comparing the Scottish experience to that across Europe and North America, Barclay shows that throughout the eighteenth century, far from being a side-note in European history, Scottish ideas about gender and marriage became culturally dominant. Now available in paperback, this book will be vital to those studying and teaching Scottish social history, and those interested in the history of marriage and gender. It will also appeal to feminists interested in the history of patriarchy.

Author : Bob Harris
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748692590

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Scottish Town in the Age of the Enlightenment 1740-1820 by Bob Harris Pdf

This heavily illustrated and innovative study is founded upon personal documents, town council minutes, legal cases, inventories, travellers' tales, plans and drawings relating to some 30 Scots burghs of the Georgian period. It establishes a distinctive a