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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777014803321

Autore

Davies Kate <1973->

Titolo

Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren [[electronic resource] ] : the revolutionary Atlantic and the politics of gender / / Kate Davies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-383-04265-9

1-280-90599-9

0-19-153583-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 p.)

Disciplina

941.07/3082

Soggetti

Historiography - English-speaking countries - History - 18th century

Women - English-speaking countries - Intellectual life

Historians - United States

Historians - Great Britain

United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Catharine Macaulay, Thomas Hollis, and the London opposition -- Out Cornelia-izing Cornelia : portraits, profession, and the gendered character of learning -- Belle sauvage : Catharine Macaulay and the American war in Britain -- Mercy Otis Warren's revolutionary letters -- Free and easy : Boston's fashionable dilemma -- Mercy Otis Warren's independence.

Sommario/riassunto

Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren were radical friends in a revolutionary era. They produced definitive histories of the English Civil War and the American Revolution, attacked the British government and the United States federal constitution, and instigated a debate on women's rights which inspired Mary Wollstonecraft and other feminists. Setting Warren and Macaulay's lives and writing in the context of the revolutionary Atlantic, this is the first book to consider one of. the eighteenth century's most important political friendships. - ;Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren were ra