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Hace 3 días · ‘It is time to effect a revolution in female manners’ declared the Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792 ‘– time to restore to them their lost dignity – and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world’.
Hace 2 días · In the nineteenth century, European literature, especially Charles Kingsley's 1853 novel Hypatia, romanticized her as "the last of the Hellenes". In the twentieth century, Hypatia became seen as an icon for women's rights and a precursor to the feminist movement.
Hace 4 días · Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity.
Hace 4 días · Toward the end of the eighteenth century, despite the increasing acknowledgment of the potential equality between women and men in terms of intellectual capabilities and their contributions to society, as exemplified by figures like the Marquis de Condorcet (1743–1794), discussed in Chap. 1 of Sisters of Prometheus—From the New Woman to Nobelity in Chemistry, the prevailing belief in ...
Hace 1 día · Willow White, Feminist Comedy: Women Playwrights of London, University of Delaware Press, 2024. Feminist Comedy: Women Playwrights of London identifies the eighteenth-century comedic stage as a key site of feminist critique, practice, and experimentation.While the history of feminism and comedy is undeniably vexed, by focusing on five women playwrights of the latter half of the eighteenth ...
Hace 4 días · Essays on the works and lives of 25 poets who wrote and published in the 18th century, some famous and familiar (Defoe, Gay, Johnson, Pope, Prior), some less known, and some (women) only recently recovered thanks to the impetus of feminist criticism and the new social history.
Hace 5 días · This article aligns the history of emotions with key debates in eighteenth-century studies in novel ways. It places the family and private life at the centre of eighteenth-century pleasure rather than the emergent public realm.
