Women Writers and the Edinburgh Enlightenment
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.01.2010
Verlag
Editions RodopiSeitenzahl
322
Maße (L/B/H)
22.8/15.1/2.2 cm
Gewicht
516 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-90-420-3137-1
This volume provides an overview of women writers in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Edinburgh literary world. Its main focus is on the careers of three women - Elizabeth Hamilton, Anne Grant, and Christian Isobel Johnstone - who were both successful and influential in their own day, although they have tended to be overlooked in later literary history. Hamilton's work is discussed in the contexts of her lifelong interest in moral philosophy and educational theory, while Grant, admired in her day for her letters, essays, and poetry about the Highlands, is read through eighteenth-century theories of cultural history and primitivism. Johnstone, probably the most obscure of the three today, was perhaps the most influential at the time because of her role as editor of a series of political periodicals; her fiction and journalistic work is examined in the context of the early nineteenth-century Edinburgh magazines.
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