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040			_aSDU
050	0	0	_aPR448 _bD366 F 2015
100	1		_aDeLucia, JoEllen. _9220654
245	1	2	_aA feminine enlightenment : _bBritish women writers and the philosophy of progress, 1759-1820 / _cJoEllen DeLucia.
260			_aEdinburgh : _bEdinburgh University Press, _c2015
300			_a208 p.
490	1		_aEdinburgh critical studies in romanticism
505			_aHKBU Library
520			_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.
650		0	_aEnglish literature _xWomen authors _xHistory and criticism. _9198172
650		0	_aEnglish literature _y18th century _xHistory and criticism.
900			_a = C.1 SDU
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