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Material Enlightenment: Women Writers and the Science of Mind, 1770-1830

Material Enlightenment: Women Writers and the Science of Mind, 1770-1830

Wharton, Joanna

Hardcover

Series: Studies in the Eighteenth Century, Book 1

Literary CriticismSports GeneralGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1783272953
ISBN13: 9781783272952
Publisher: Boydell Pr
Published: Oct 21 2018
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
A methodologically innovative account of the role of women writers in the development of early psychological theory and practice in the long eighteenth century.

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.

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