02491cam a22002417i 4500008004100000020001800041020001500059040000800074050002300082100003000105245011600135260005100251300001100302490004600313505001700359520153500376650007001911650006101981900001502042942001302057999001902070952016002089150610t20152015stk      b    001 0 eng d  a9780748695942  a074869594X  aSDU00aPR448bD366 F 20151 aDeLucia, JoEllen.922065412aA feminine enlightenment :bBritish women writers and the philosophy of progress, 1759-1820 /cJoEllen DeLucia.  aEdinburgh :bEdinburgh University Press,c2015  a208 p.1 aEdinburgh critical studies in romanticism  aHKBU Library  aRevises established understandings of British women writers' contributions to Enlightenment narratives of social and historical progress  Drawing on original archival research, A Feminine Enlightenment argues that women writers shaped Enlightenment conversations regarding the role of sentiment and gender in the civilizing process. By reading women's literature alongside history and philosophy and moving between the eighteenth century and Romantic era, JoEllen DeLucia challenges conventional historical and generic boundaries. Beginning with Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), she tracks discussions of "women's progress" from the rarified atmosphere of mid-eighteenth-century Bluestocking salons and the masculine domain of the Scottish university system to the popular Minerva Press novels of the early nineteenth century. Ultimately, this study positions feminine genres such as the Gothic romance and Bluestocking poetry, usually seen as outliers in a masculine Age of Reason, as essential to understanding emotion's role in Enlightenment narratives of progress. The effect of this study is twofold: to show how developments in women's literature reflected and engaged with Enlightenment discussions of emotion, sentiment, and commercial and imperial expansion; and to provide new literary and historical contexts for contemporary conversations that continue to use "women's progress" to assign cultures and societies around the globe a place in universalizing schemas of development. --Provided by publisher. 0aEnglish literaturexWomen authorsxHistory and criticism.9198172 0aEnglish literaturey18th centuryxHistory and criticism.  a = C.1 SDU  cGBE2lcc  c112940d112940  00102lcc406PR0448 D366 F2015708CGB9285433aSDUbSDUcGEN3d2025-11-04e2l0oPR448 D366 F 2015p1000373450r2025-11-04 00:00:00tC.1w2025-11-04yGBE