The Feminization Debate In Eighteenth Century England

Author : E. Clery
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230509047

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The Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England by E. Clery Pdf

In the Eighteenth-century, critics of capitalism denounced the growth of luxury and effeminacy; supporters applauded the increase of refinement and the improved status of women. This pioneering study explores the way the association of commerce and femininity permeated cultural production. It looks at the first use of a female author as an icon of modernity in the Athenian Mercury , and reappraises works by Elizabeth Singer Rowe, Mandeville, Defoe, Pope and Elizabeth Carter. Samuel Richardson's novels represent the culmination of the English debate, while contemporary essays by David Hume move towards a fully-fledged enlightenment theory of feminization.

Author : E. Clery
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 033377731X

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The Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England by E. Clery Pdf

In the Eighteenth-century, critics of capitalism denounced the growth of luxury and effeminacy; supporters applauded the increase of refinement and the improved status of women. This pioneering study explores the way the association of commerce and femininity permeated cultural production. It looks at the first use of a female author as an icon of modernity in the Athenian Mercury , and reappraises works by Elizabeth Singer Rowe, Mandeville, Defoe, Pope and Elizabeth Carter. Samuel Richardson's novels represent the culmination of the English debate, while contemporary essays by David Hume move towards a fully-fledged enlightenment theory of feminization.

Author : Hannah Barker,Elaine Chalus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317889137

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Gender in Eighteenth-Century England by Hannah Barker,Elaine Chalus Pdf

A new collection of essays which challenges many existing assumptions, particularly the conventional models of separate spheres and economic change. All the essays are specifically written for a student market, making detailed research accessible to a wide readership and the opening chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the subject describing the development of gender history as a whole and the study of eighteenth-century England. This is an exciting collection which is a major revision of the subject.

Author : Göran Rydén
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317047407

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Sweden in the Eighteenth-Century World by Göran Rydén Pdf

Eighteenth-century Sweden was deeply involved in the process of globalisation: ships leaving Sweden’s central ports exported bar iron that would drive the Industrial Revolution, whilst arriving ships would bring not only exotic goods and commodities to Swedish consumers, but also new ideas and cultural practices with them. At the same time, Sweden was an agricultural country to a large extent governed by self-subsistence, and - for most - wealth was created within this structure. This volume brings together a group of scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds who seek to present a more nuanced and elaborated picture of the Swedish cosmopolitan eighteenth century. Together they paint a picture of Sweden that is more like the one eighteenth-century intellectuals imagined, and help to situate Sweden in histories of cosmopolitanism of the wider world.

Author : Katharine M. Rogers
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Feminism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037430654

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Feminism in Eighteenth-century England by Katharine M. Rogers Pdf

Author : Antoinina Bevan Zlatar,Mark Ittensohn,Enit Karafili Steiner,Olga Timofeeva
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027258441

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Words, Books, Images, and the Long Eighteenth Century by Antoinina Bevan Zlatar,Mark Ittensohn,Enit Karafili Steiner,Olga Timofeeva Pdf

The essays collected in this volume engage in a conversation among lexicography, the culture of the book, and the canonization and commemoration of English literary figures and their works in the long eighteenth century. The source of inspiration for each piece is Allen Reddick’s scholarship on Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), the great English lexicographer whose Dictionary (1755) included thousands upon thousands of illustrative quotations from the “best” authors, and, more recently, on Thomas Hollis (1720-1774), the much less well-known bibliophile who sent gifts of books by a pantheon of Whig authors to individuals and libraries in Britain, Protestant bastions in continental Europe, and America. Between the covers of Words, Books, Images readers will encounter canonical English authors of prose and poetry—Bacon, Milton, Defoe, Dryden, Pope, Richardson, Swift, Byron, Mary Shelley, and Edward Lear. But they will also become acquainted with the agents of their canonization and commemoration—the printers and publishers of Grub Street, the biographer John Aubrey, the lexicographer and biographer Johnson, the bibliophile Hollis, and the portrait painter Reynolds. No less crucially, they will meet fellow readers of then and now—women and men who peruse, poach, snip, and savour a book’s every word and image.

Author : Isabel Karremann,Anja Müller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351918855

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Mediating Identities in Eighteenth-Century England by Isabel Karremann,Anja Müller Pdf

Through case studies from diverse fields of cultural studies, this collection examines how different constructions of identity were mediated in England during the long eighteenth century. While the concept of identity has received much critical attention, the question of how identities were mediated usually remains implicit. This volume engages in a critical discussion of the connection between historically specific categories of identity determined by class, gender, nationality, religion, political factions and age, and the media available at the time, including novels, newspapers, trial reports, images and the theatre. Representative case studies are the arrival of children's literature as a genre, the creation of masculine citizenship in Defoe's novels, the performance of gendered and national identities by the actress Kitty Clive or in plays by Henry Fielding and Richard Sheridan, fashion and the public sphere, the emergence of the Whig and Tory parties, the radical culture of the 1790s, and visual representations of domestic and imperial landscape. Recognizing the proliferation of identities in the epoch, these essays explore the ways in which different media determined constructions of identity and were in turn shaped by them.

Author : Andrew Lincoln
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009366540

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Imagining War and Peace in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1690–1820 by Andrew Lincoln Pdf

Is war the opposite of peace, or its necessary accomplice? Exploring this question in relation to eighteenth-century Britain, Andrew Lincoln opens up complex, paradoxical and enduring issues and shows how ideas and methods were developed to provide the British public with moral insulation from violence both overseas and at home.

Author : Soile Ylivuori
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429845697

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Women and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England by Soile Ylivuori Pdf

This first in-depth study of women’s politeness examines the complex relationship individuals had with the discursive ideals of polite femininity. Contextualising women’s autobiographical writings (journals and letters) with a wide range of eighteenth-century printed didactic material, it analyses the tensions between politeness discourse which aimed to regulate acceptable feminine identities and women’s possibilities to resist this disciplinary regime. Ylivuori focuses on the central role the female body played as both the means through which individuals actively fashioned themselves as polite and feminine, and the supposedly truthful expression of their inner status of polite femininity.

Author : Cynthia Aalders
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198872306

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The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century English Women by Cynthia Aalders Pdf

The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century English Women explores the vital and unexplored ways in which women's life writings acted to undergird, guide, and indeed shape religious communities. Through an exploration of various significant but understudied personal relationships- including mentorship by older women, spiritual friendship, and care for nonbiological children-the book demonstrates the multiple ways in which women were active in writing religious communities. The women discussed here belonged to communities that habitually communicated through personal writing. At the same time, their acts of writing were creative acts, powerful to build and shape religious communities: these women wrote religious community. The book consists of a series of interweaving case studies and focuses on Catherine Talbot (1721-70), Anne Steele (1717-78), and Ann Bolton (1743-1822), and on their literary interactions with friends and family. Considered together, these subjects and sources allow comparison across denomination, for Talbot was Anglican, Steele a Baptist, and Bolton a Methodist. Further, it considers women's life writings as spiritual legacy, as manuscripts were preserved by female friends and family members and continued to function in religious communities after the death of their authors. Various strands of enquiry weave through the book: questions of gender and religion, themselves inflected by denomination; themes related to life writings and manuscript cultures; and the interplay between the writer as individual and her relationships and communal affiliations. The result is a variegated and highly textured account of eighteenth-century women's spiritual and writing lives.

Author : Nicola Parsons
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230244764

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Reading Gossip in Early Eighteenth-Century England by Nicola Parsons Pdf

This book analyzes the relation between print cultures and eighteenth-century literary and political practices and, identifying Queen Anne's England as a crucial moment in the public life of gossip, offers readings of key texts that demonstrate how gossip's interpretative strategies shaped readers' participation in the literary and public spheres.

Author : Rebecca Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134788712

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Written Maternal Authority and Eighteenth-Century Education in Britain by Rebecca Davies Pdf

Examining writing for and about education in the period from 1740 to 1820, Rebecca Davies’s book plots the formation of a written paradigm of maternal education that associates maternity with educational authority. Examining novels, fiction for children, conduct literature and educative and political tracts by Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Edgeworth, Ann Martin Taylor and Jane Austen, Davies identifies an authoritative feminine educational voice. She shows how the function of the discourse of maternal authority is modified in different genres, arguing that both the female writers and the fictional mothers adopt maternal authority and produce their own formulations of ideal educational methods. The location of idealised maternity for women, Davies proposes, is in the act of writing educational discourse rather than in the physical performance of the maternal role. Her book contextualizes the development of a written discourse of maternal education that emerged in the enlightenment period and explores the empowerment achieved by women writing within this discourse, albeit through a notion of authority that is circumscribed by the 'rules' of a discipline.

Author : Manushag N. Powell
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611484168

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Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-century English Periodicals by Manushag N. Powell Pdf

This book discusses the English periodical and how it shapes and expresses early conceptions of authorship in the eighteenth century.

Author : Karen O'Brien,Karen Elisabeth O'Brien
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : Katrin Berndt,Alessa Johns
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110650440

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Handbook of the British Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century by Katrin Berndt,Alessa Johns Pdf

The handbook offers a comprehensive introduction to the British novel in the long eighteenth century, when this genre emerged to develop into the period’s most versatile and popular literary form. Part I features six systematic chapters that discuss literary, intellectual, socio-economic, and political contexts, providing innovative approaches to issues such as sense and sentiment, gender considerations, formal characteristics, economic history, enlightened and radical concepts of citizenship and human rights, ecological ramifications, and Britain’s growing global involvement. Part II presents twenty-five analytical chapters that attend to individual novels, some canonical and others recently recovered. These analyses engage the debates outlined in the systematic chapters, undertaking in-depth readings that both contextualize the works and draw on relevant criticism, literary theory, and cultural perspectives. The handbook’s breadth and depth, clear presentation, and lucid language make it attractive and accessible to scholar and student alike.