Women as Public Moralists in Britain: From the Bluestockings to Virginia Woolf: 95 (Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series) - Hardcover

Dabby, Benjamin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0861933435 ISBN 13: 9780861933433

Verlag: Royal Historical Society, 2017

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Críticas

Useful reading, not only for those with a particular interest in the specific women he writes about, or public moralists more generally, but also for anyone researching the history of women's rights. BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF VICTORIAN STUDIES

[A]n important, interesting, deeply intelligent contribution to the field. JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES

Dabby's text firmly places women in the center of public debates about morality in Britain . . . [He] does an excellent job of creating the corpus of female moralists in Britain at the turn of the century. INSIGHTS: NOTES FROM THE COORDINATING COUNCIL OF WOMEN IN HISTORY

An engaging and well-written book...Benjamin Dabby's scholarship both alters and enriches our understanding of the writers he examines. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

An altogether splendid piece of work. VICTORIAN WEB

Reseña del editor

In nineteenth-century Britain, public debates about the nation's moral health and about men's and women's responsibility for it were shaped decisively by a tradition of female moralists. This book looks at the cultural criticism of eight of the most significant of these writers: Anna Jameson, Hannah Lawrance, Margaret Oliphant, Marian Evans ("George Eliot"), Eliza Lynn Linton, Beatrice Hastings, Rebecca West and Virginia Woolf, providing a detailed and compelling account of how their writing on history, literature and visual art changed contemporaries' understanding of the lessons to be drawn from each field at the same time as they contested and redefined contemporary understandings of masculinity and femininity. It recovers these moralists' understanding of themselves as part of a tradition of women of letters stretching from eighteenth-century bluestockings to their own time, and the growing consensus across the political range of periodicals that women's intellectual potential was equal to men's, and not determined by their sex.

Benjamin Dabby is an independent historian.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Royal Historical Society
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0861933435
• ISBN 13: 9780861933433
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 308