عنوان

Material enlightenment :

(Number (ISBN

1787443302

(Number (ISBN

9781787443303

Erroneous ISBN

1783272953

Erroneous ISBN

9781783272952

Title Proper

Material enlightenment :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

women writers and the science of mind, 1770-1830 /

First Statement of Responsibility

Joanna Wharton.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Rochester, NY :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The Boydell Press in association with British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2018.

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2018

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (x, 276 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations.

Series Title

Studies in the eighteenth century,

ISSN of Series

2398-9904

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-267) and index.

Text of Note

Women writers played a central, but hitherto under-recognised, role in the development of the philosophy of mind and its practical outworkings in Romantic era England, Scotland and Ireland. This book focuses on the writings and lives of five leading figures - Anna Barbauld, Honora Edgeworth, Hannah More, Elizabeth Hamilton and Maria Edgeworth - a group of women who differed profoundly in their political, religious and social views but were nevertheless associated through correspondence, family ties and a shared belief in the importance of female education. It shows how through the philosophical language of materiality and embodiment that they developed and the 'enlightened domesticity' that they espoused they transformed educational practice and made substantial interventions into the social reformist politics of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Alive to the manifold overlaps between emotional, and often religious, experience and experiment in the developing science of mind at this time, the book illuminates the potential and the limits of domestic Enlightenment, particularly in projects of moral and industrial 'improvement' and casts new light on a wide variety of other fields: the history of science, early psychology and religion, reformist politics and Romanticism, and how all these reflected the political and social fallout of the French Revolution in the first years of the nineteenth century.

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JSTOR

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22573/ctv1q527w

Title

Material enlightenment.

International Standard Book Number

9781783272952

English literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism.

Philosophy of mind-- History-- 18th century.

Philosophy of mind-- History-- 19th century.

English literature-- Women authors.

HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century

PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism

Philosophy of mind.

HIS-- 037050

LIT-- 004290

PHI-- 010000

SCI-- 034000

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Book number

Wharton, Joanna

Date of Transaction

20200823053753.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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