Benjamin Dabby

Women as Public Moralists in Britain

From the Bluestockings to Virginia Woolf

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Produktbeschreibung

In nineteenth-century Britain, public debates about the nation's moral health and about men's and women's responsibility for it were shaped decisively by a tradition of female moralists. This book looks at the cultural criticism of eight of the most significant of these writers: Anna Jameson, Hannah Lawrance, Margaret Oliphant, Marian Evans ('George Eliot'), Eliza Lynn Linton, Beatrice Hastings, Rebecca West and Virginia Woolf, providing a detailed and compelling account of how their writing on history, literature and visual art changed contemporaries' understanding of the lessons to be drawn from each field at the same time as they contested and redefined contemporary understandings of masculinity and femininity. It recovers these moralists' understanding of themselves as part of a tradition of women of letters stretching from eighteenth-century bluestockings to their own time, and the growing consensus across the political range of periodicals that women's intellectual potential was equal to men's, and not determined by their sex. Benjamin Dabby is an independent historian.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780861933433
• ISBN-10: 0861933435
• Artikelnr.: 46467058

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Dabby

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Anna Jameson and the use of picturesque history Hannah
Lawrance and the claims of women's history Margaret Oliphant and the
lessons of eighteenth-century history Anna Jameson, cultural authority and
public moralism Beautiful and useful arts in Hannah Lawrance's cultural
criticism Marian Evans's cultural criticism in the context of women's
public moralism Eliza Lynn Linton and feminism at the turn of the century
Beatrice Hastings, Rebecca West and women's rights at the turn of the
century Virginia Woolf's common reader and her social criticism The
contexts of conclusions Bibliography