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British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century - British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century Teresa Barnard New edition
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British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century - British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
Teresa Barnard
Highlighting the remarkable women who found ways around the constraints placed on their intellectual growth, this collection of essays shows how their persistence opened up attributes of potent female imagination, radical endeavour, literary vigour, and self-education that compares well with male intellectual achievement in the long eighteenth century. Disseminating their knowledge through literary and documentary prose with unapologetic self-confidence, women such as Anna Barbauld, Anna Seward, Elizabeth Inchbald and Joanna Baillie usurped subjects perceived as masculine to contribute to scientific, political, philosophical and theological debate and progress. This multifaceted exploration goes beyond traditional readings of women?s creativity to add fresh, at times controversial, insights into the female view of the intellectual world. Bringing together leading experts on British women?s lives, work and writings, the volume seeks to rediscover women?s appropriations of masculine disciplines and to examine their interventions into the intellectual world. Through their engagement with a unique perspective on women?s lives and achievements, the essays make important contributions to the existing body of knowledge in this important area that will inform future scholarship.
212 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | July 14, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9781472437457 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 214 |
| Dimensions | 164 × 243 × 21 mm · 562 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Jenkins, Professor Eugenia Zuroski |
| Series Editor | Lynch, Professor Jack |
