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13 de jun. de 2022 · 5 min read. The Status of Women in 18th Century English Society. If women don't want to be men, what do they want? (Grand, 1894, p. 270) The 18th century is a significant period for analyzing how women were ill-treated by the male-dominated society. It is an age defined by gender inequality and discrimination.
Women and Literature in Eighteenth Century England | History Today. During the eighteenth century female authors became increasingly numerous and industrious; while as readers, writes Robert Halsband, thanks to the spread of the new circulating libraries, women began to form ‘a significant sector’ of the literary public.
Combining intellectual history with literary criticism, Karen O'Brien examines the central importance to the British Enlightenment both of women writers and of women as a subject of enquiry.
1. English literature – Women authors – History and criticism. 2. Women and literature – Great Britain – History – 18th century. 3. English literature – 18th century – History and criticism. 4. Great Britain – Intellectual life – 18th century. 5. Women intellectuals – Great Britain. I. Jones, Vivien, 1952–. pr113.w655 1999
WOMEN AND ENLIGHTENMENT IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN. During the long eighteenth century, ideas of society and of social progress were first fully investigated. These investigations took place in the contexts of economic, theological, historical and literary writings which paid unprecedented attention to the place of women.
Hace 2 días · Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Karen O'Brien. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN: 9780521774277; 318pp.; Price: £17.99. Reviewer: Dr Rosalind Carr. University of Glasgow. Citation: Dr Rosalind Carr, review of Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain, (review no. 831)
13 de ago. de 2014 · The practice of celebrating exemplary women has had a hallowed if contested place in the history of feminism, but this essay argues that recent scholarship has not recognized just how profound a role the discourse of women worthies has played in the feminist thought of eighteenth-century Britain.
