Mothers of the Nation: Women's Political Writing in England, 1780–1830Indiana University Press, 2000 - 172 pages 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. According to this view, British society was divided into distinctly differentiated and gendered spheres of public versus private activities in the 18th and 19th centuries, |
Table des matières
Acknowledgments ક | 1 |
Theater as the School of Virtue | 39 |
Womens Political Poetry | 69 |
Literary Criticism Cultural Authority and the Rise of the Novel | 85 |
The Politics of Fiction | 103 |
The Politics of Modernity | 142 |
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Mothers of the Nation: Women's Political Writing in England, 1780-1830 Anne Kostelanetz Mellor Affichage d'extraits - 2000 |
Mothers of the Nation: Women's Political Writing in England, 1780-1830 Anne Kostelanetz Mellor Affichage d'extraits - 2000 |
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