1st Edition

Catharine Macaulay's Republican Enlightenment

By Karen Green Copyright 2020
276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

The ‘celebrated’ Catharine Macaulay was both lauded and execrated during the eighteenth century for her republican politics and her unconventional, second marriage. This comprehensive biography in the 'life and letters' tradition situates her works in their political and social contexts and offers an unprecedented, detailed account of the content and influence of her writing, the arguments she... Read more

Introduction

1. The Formation of a Female Republican; Kent, 1731–60

2. Influences from Scotland; St James’s Place, 1760–66

3. A Republican Coterie; Berners St, 1766–71

4. Wilkes, Fever, and Dr Wilson; London and Bath 1771–77

5. France, Marriage, and Scandal; 1777–79

6. Completion of the History and Emergence as a Moral Philosopher; Knightsbridge, 1780–84

7. America and France; 1784–86

8. On Education and the Revolution in France; Binfield, Berkshire, 1787–91

9. Macaulay’s Lasting Significance

Biography

Karen Green is Associate Lecturer and Principal Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. In 1995 she published The Woman of Reason: Feminism, Humanism and Political Thought; in 2009, with Jacqueline Broad, A History of Women’s Political Thought in Europe, 1400–1700; and in 2014, A History of Women’s Political Thought in Europe, 1700–1800. She is the editor of The Correspondence of Catharine Macaulay (2019) and author of many articles in philosophy, feminism, and political theory.