1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910826039203321

Autore

DeLucia JoEllen

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

1-4744-2315-9

1-4744-0867-2

0-7486-9595-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 208 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Edinburgh critical studies in romanticism

Classificazione

HG 260

Disciplina

820.9928709033

Soggetti

English literature - Women authors - History and criticism

English literature

English literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Aug 2016).

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.    Key Features:   * Establishes the centrality of gender to Enlightenment discussions of social and historical development   *  Uncovers evidence of women writers' participation in the Scottish Enlightenment's theorization of sentiment and historical progress   *Provides literary and historical background for ongoing discussions of the history of emotion and the study of affect

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910149386403321

Titolo

Beyond Spain's borders : women players in early modern national theaters / / edited by Anne J. Cruz and Maria Cristina Quintero

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-315-43880-1

1-315-43879-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Transculturalisms, 1400-1700

Altri autori (Persone)

CruzAnne J

QuinteroMaria Cristina

Disciplina

862.309

Soggetti

Spanish drama - Classical period, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Theater - Spain - History - 16th century

Theater - Spain - History - 17th century

Women in the theater - Spain - History - 16th century

Women in the theater - Spain - History - 17th century

Sex role in literature

European literature - Spanish influences

European drama - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. From Spain to the transnational stage -- pt. II. Commedia and court crosscurrents.

Sommario/riassunto

The prolific theatrical activity that abounded on the stages of early modern Europe demonstrates that drama was a genre that transcended national borders. The transnational character of early modern theater reflects the rich admixture of various dramatic traditions, such as Spain's comedia and Italy's commedia dell'arte, but also the transformations across cultures of Spanish novellas to French plays and English interludes. Of particular import to this study is the role that women and gender played in this cross-pollination of theatrical sources and practices. Contributors to the volume not only investigate the gendered effect of Spanish texts and literary types on English and French drama, they address the actual journeys of Spanish actresses to French theaters and of Italian actresses to the Spanish stage, while several emphasize the movement of royal women to various courts and their impact on theatrical activity in Spain and abroad. In their innovative focus on women's participation and influence, the chapters in this volume illustrate the frequent yet little studied transnational and transcultural points of contact between Spanish theater and the national theaters of England, France, Austria, and Italy.