Mothers of the Nation: Women`s Political Writing in England, 1780

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Автор: Anne K. Mellor
Название: Mothers of the Nation: Women`s Political Writing in England, 1780–1830
ISBN: 9780253213693
Издательство: Wiley EDC
Классификация:

Литературоведение: с 1800 до 1900 г.

История Британии и Ирландии

История нового времени до 20 века: с 1700 по 1900

Гендерные исследования: женщины

ISBN-10: 025321369X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 192
Вес: 0.30 кг.
Дата издания: 2002-02-13
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 6 figures, 1 bibliog., 1 index
Размер: 233 x 159 x 14
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
Основная тема: Gender studies: women,Literature: history & criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
Подзаголовок: Women`s political writing in england, 1780-1830
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Описание: British women writers were enormously influential in the creation of public opinion and political ideology during the years from 1780 to 1830. Anne Mellor demonstrates the many ways in which they attempted to shape British public policy and cultural behavior in the areas of religious and governmental reform, education, philanthropy, and patterns of consumption. She argues that the theoretical paradigm of the doctrine of the separate spheresmay no longer be valid. According to this view, British society was divided into distinctly differentiated and gendered spheres of public versus private activities in the 18th and 19th centuries,
Surveying all the genres of literature—drama, poetry, fiction, non-fiction prose, and literary criticism—Mellor shows how women writers promoted a new concept of the ideal woman as rationally educated, sexually self-disciplined, and above all, virtuous. This New Woman, these writers said, was better suited to govern the nation than were its current fiscally irresponsible, lecherous, and corruptible male rulers.
Beginning with Hannah More, Mellor argues that women writers too often dismissed as conservative or retrogressive instead promoted a revolution in cultural mores or manners. She discusses writers as diverse as Elizabeth Inchbald, Hannah Cowley, and Joanna Baillie; as Charlotte Smith, Anna Barbauld, and Lucy Aikin; as Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Reeve, and Anna Seward; and concludes with extended analyses of Charlotte Smiths Desmond and Jane Austens Persuasion. She thus documents women writers full participation in that very discursive public sphere which Habermas so famously restricted to men of property. Moreover, the new career of philanthropy defined by Hannah More provided a practical means by which women of all classes could actively construct a new British civil society, and thus become the mothers not only of individual households but of the nation as a whole.
Дополнительное описание: Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Women and the Public Sphere in England, 1780-1830
1. Hannah More, Revolutionary Reformer
2. Theatre as the School of Virtue
3. Women's Political Poetry
4. Literary Criticism, Cultural Au

Mothers of the Nation: Women`s Political Writing in England, 1780–1830, Anne K. Mellor