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Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Karen O'BrienKaren Elisabeth O'Brien
出版Cambridge University Press, 2009-03-05
主題History / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Modern / 18th CenturyLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / Women AuthorsLiterary Criticism / RenaissanceLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / WomenLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Gender IdentitySocial Science / Feminism & Feminist TheorySocial Science / Women's StudiesSocial Science / Gender Studies
ISBN05217734909780521773492
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=sZRRr6QSmBEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋During the long eighteenth century, ideas of society and of social progress were first fully investigated. These investigations took place in the contexts of economic, theological, historical and literary writings which paid unprecedented attention to the place of women. Combining intellectual history with literary criticism, Karen O'Brien examines the central importance to the British Enlightenment both of women writers and of women as a subject of enquiry. She examines the work of a range of writers, including John Locke, Mary Astell, David Hume, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, T. R. Malthus, the Bluestockings, Catharine Macaulay, Mary Wollstonecraft and the first female historians of the early nineteenth century. She explores the way in which Enlightenment ideas created a language and a framework for understanding the moral agency and changing social roles of women, without which the development of nineteenth-century feminism would not have been possible.