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Varying Form of Title: | Women and Enlightenment in 18th-century Britain
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ISBN: | 9780511508578 0511508573 0511507917 9780511507915 9780511576317 0511576315 0521773490 0521774276 9780521773492 9780521774277
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | "During the long eighteenth century, ideas of society and of social progress were first fully investigated. These investigations took place in the contexts of economic, theological, historical and literary writings which paid unprecedented attention to the place of women. Combining intellectual history with literary criticism, Karen O'Brien examines the central importance to the British Enlightenment both of women writers and of women as a subject of enquiry. She examines the work of a range of writers, and explores the way in which Enlightenment ideas created a language and a framework for understanding the moral agency and changing social roles of women, without which the development of nineteenth-century feminism would not have been possible."--Jacket.
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Other form: | Print version: O'Brien, Karen, Dr. Women and Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Britain. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009
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Standard no.: | 9786612058691
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