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题名/责任者:

A feminine enlightenment : British women writers and the philosophy of progress, 1759-1820 / JoEllen DeLucia.

出版发行项:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press 2015.

出版发行项:

漏2015.

ISBN:

9780748695942 (hardback)

ISBN:

074869594X

载体形态项:

viii, 208 pages ; 24 cm.

丛编说明:

Edinburgh critical studies in romanticism

丛编统一题名:

Edinburgh critical studies in romanticism.

个人责任者:

DeLucia, JoEllen, author.

论题主题:

English literature-Women authors-History and criticism.

论题主题:

English literature-18th century-History and criticism.

中图法分类号:

I561.064

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-201) and index.

内容附注:

Introduction: A feminine enlightenment? -- The progress of feeling: The Ossian poems and Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments -- Ossiania history and Bluestocking feminism -- Queering progress: Anna Seward and Llangollen Vale -- Poetry, paratext, and history in Radcliffe's gothic -- Stadial fiction or the progress of taste -- Epilogue: Women writers in the age of Ossian.

摘要附注:

Revises established understandings of British women writers' contributions to Enlightenment narratives of social and historical progress Drawing on original archival research, A Feminine Enlightenment argues that women writers shaped Enlightenment conversations regarding the role of sentiment and gender in the civilizing process. By reading women's literature alongside history and philosophy and moving between the eighteenth century and Romantic era, JoEllen DeLucia challenges conventional historical and generic boundaries. Beginning with Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), she tracks discussions of "women's progress" from the rarified atmosphere of mid-eighteenth-century Bluestocking salons and the masculine domain of the Scottish university system to the popular Minerva Press novels of the early nineteenth century. Ultimately, this study positions feminine genres such as the Gothic romance and Bluestocking poetry, usually seen as outliers in a masculine Age of Reason, as essential to understanding emotion's role in Enlightenment narratives of progress. The effect of this study is twofold: to show how developments in women's literature reflected and engaged with Enlightenment discussions of emotion, sentiment, and commercial and imperial expansion; and to provide new literary and historical contexts for contemporary conversations that continue to use "women's progress" to assign cultures and societies around the globe a place in universalizing schemas of development. --Provided by publisher.

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