LEADER 04347nam 2200661 450 001 9910797320603321 005 20230810000411.0 010 $a1-4744-2315-9 010 $a1-4744-0867-2 010 $a0-7486-9595-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9780748695959 035 $a(CKB)3710000000453408 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001515275 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12590805 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001515275 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11480579 035 $a(PQKB)10009141 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780748695959 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001665531 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6995425 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6995425 035 $a(DE-B1597)616939 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780748695959 035 $a(OCoLC)1322124603 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000453408 100 $a20220928d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA feminine enlightenment $eBritish women writers and the philosophy of progress, 1759-1820 /$fJoEllen DeLucia 210 1$aEdinburgh :$cEdinburgh University Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 208 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aEdinburgh critical studies in romanticism 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Aug 2016). 311 $a0-7486-9594-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 193-201) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aDrawing on original archival research, A Feminine Enlightenment argues that women writers shaped Enlightenment conversations regarding the role of sentiment and gender in the civilizing process. By reading women's literature alongside history and philosophy and moving between the eighteenth century and Romantic era, JoEllen DeLucia challenges conventional historical and generic boundaries. Beginning with Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), she tracks discussions of 'women's progress' from the rarified atmosphere of mid-eighteenth-century Bluestocking salons and the masculine domain of the Scottish university system to the popular Minerva Press novels of the early nineteenth century. Ultimately, this study positions feminine genres such as the Gothic romance and Bluestocking poetry, usually seen as outliers in a masculine Age of Reason, as essential to understanding emotion's role in Enlightenment narratives of progress. The effect of this study is twofold: to show how developments in women's literature reflected and engaged with Enlightenment discussions of emotion, sentiment, and commercial and imperial expansion; and to provide new literary and historical contexts for contemporary conversations that continue to use 'women's progress' to assign cultures and societies around the globe a place in universalizing schemas of development. Key Features: * Establishes the centrality of gender to Enlightenment discussions of social and historical development * Uncovers evidence of women writers' participation in the Scottish Enlightenment's theorization of sentiment and historical progress *Provides literary and historical background for ongoing discussions of the history of emotion and the study of affect 410 0$aEdinburgh critical studies in romanticism. 606 $aEnglish literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature 606 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aEnglish literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a820.9928709033 686 $aHG 260$qBVB$2rvk 700 $aDeLucia$b JoEllen$01544314 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797320603321 996 $aA feminine enlightenment$93798435 997 $aUNINA