1st Edition
British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century
Part 1 An Engagement with Science: 'To bring this useful invention into fashion in England': Mary Wortley Montagu as medical expert. The lure of the volcano in the female literary imagination. Women's 'reason' for a 'rising generation': Mary Wollstonecraft, paediatric science and the child of nature. Part 2 Religious Discourses: Anxiety, authorship, authority: the maternal feminine and the divine in Hannah More's Sacred Dramas. Rethinking surrender: Elizabeth Inchbald and the 'Catholic novel'. Veiled exegesis: dissenting women's aesthetic approach to theological hermeneutics and social action. Part 3 Radical Women, Politics, and Philosophy: 'A longing to enjoy my liberty': the patronage, writings, and picturesque tours of Elizabeth Percy, 1st Duchess of Northumberland. Coming out of the closet and competing with John Anybody: the bold world of Joanna Baillie. 'France is a republic': The Canterbury Tales and Harriet Lee's revolutionary gothic.
Biography
Teresa Barnard is an independent scholar.
"In British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century, Teresa Barnard and her contributors demonstrate women's substantial participation in the period's scientific, political, philosophical, and theological developments. The fresh scholarship in these essays advances our recognition of women's interventions in these crucial fields of inquiry."
- Claudia Thomas Kairoff, Wake Forest University, USA
"Scholarly in approach and presentation, this useful book has been provided with convenient footnotes rather than awkward endnotes and has a good bibliography. (...) Experts in the field will find most of the individual essays of interest."
- Caroline Franklin, Swansea University, UK
"There is much to commend in this book’s bringing together of a variety of case studies..."
- Angela Byrne, Ulster University, Northern Ireland
