Mothers of the Nation: Women's Political Writing in England, 1780-1830Indiana University Press, 2000 - 172 ページ "British women writers were enormously influential in the creation of public opinion and political ideology during the years from 1780 to 1830. Anne Mellor demonstrates the many ways in which they attempted to shape British public policy and cultural behavior in the areas of religious and governmental reform, education, philanthropy, and patterns of consumption. She argues that the theoretical paradigm of the 'doctrine of the separate spheres' may no longer be valid. Surveying all the genres of literature - drama, poetry, fiction, non-fiction prose, and literary criticism - Mellor shows how women writers promoted a new concept of the ideal woman as rationally educated, sexually self-disciplined, and above all, virtuous. This New Woman, these writers said, was better suited to govern the nation than were its current fiscally irresponsible, lecherous, and corruptible male rulers. Beginning with Hannah More, Mellor argues that women writers, who were too often dismissed as conservative or retrogressive, instead promoted a revolution in cultural mores. She discusses writers as diverse as Elizabeth Inchbald, Hannah Cowley, and Joanna Baillie: Charlotte Smith, Anna Barbauld, and Lucy Aikin; Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Reeve, and Anna Seward; and concludes with extended analyses of Charlotte Smith's Desmond and Jane Austen's Persuasion. She thus documents women writers' full participation in that very discursive public sphere which Habermas so famously restricted to men of property."-- |
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... virtue . Men on the other hand have better judgment , based on their wider experience of the public world ; at the same time their manners are coarse , with " rough angles and asperities " ( introduction to Essays on Various Sub- jects ...
... virtue . Men on the other hand have better judgment , based on their wider experience of the public world ; at the same time their manners are coarse , with " rough angles and asperities " ( introduction to Essays on Various Sub- jects ...
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... virtue , answerable to no merely mortal male , such female evangelical preachers as Mary Bosanquet Fletcher , Sarah ... virtue within the domestic sphere and for the moral and religious instruction of young children . Cit- ing this ...
... virtue , answerable to no merely mortal male , such female evangelical preachers as Mary Bosanquet Fletcher , Sarah ... virtue within the domestic sphere and for the moral and religious instruction of young children . Cit- ing this ...
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... virtue that in a Christian nation must govern both the private and the public sphere , thus taking precedence over all merely expedient considerations of government policy or commercial ad- vancement . Since female preachers typically ...
... virtue that in a Christian nation must govern both the private and the public sphere , thus taking precedence over all merely expedient considerations of government policy or commercial ad- vancement . Since female preachers typically ...
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Acknowledgments | 1 |
Theater as the School of Virtue | 39 |
Womens Political Poetry | 69 |
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