Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810
During the second half of the eighteenth century, the social role of educated women and the nature of domesticity were the focus of widespread debate in Britain. The emergence of an identifiably feminist voice in that debate is the subject of Harriet Guest's new study, which explores how small changes in the meaning of patriotism and the relations between public and private categories permitted educated British women to imagine themselves as political subjects.\ Small Change considers the...
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During the second half of the eighteenth century, the social role of educated women and the nature of domesticity were the focus of widespread debate in Britain. The emergence of an identifiably feminist voice in that debate is the subject of Harriet Guest's new study, which explores how small changes in the meaning of patriotism and the relations between public and private categories permitted educated British women to imagine themselves as political subjects.
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments IntroductionPart I: Learning and Shopping in the Mid-Eighteenth Century1. These Neuter Somethings: Gender Difference and Commercial Culture2. The Female Worthies: Memorializing Learned Women3. A Shoping We Will GoPart II: The Fame of Elizabeth Carter4. The Learned Lady as Public Spectacle5. The Independence of the Learned Lady6. The Public Profession of FaithPart III. Femininity and National Feeling in the 1770s and 1780s7. From Learning to Patriotism8. This Sentiment of Home9. Anna Laetitia Barbauld and the Mighty Mothers of Immortal Rome10. Britain Mourn’d: Anna Seward’s Patriotic ElegiesPart IV. Politics, Sensibility, Domesticity, 1790-181011. The Dream of a Common Language: The Strictures on Femininity of Hannah More and Mary Wollstonecraft12. Modern Love: Feminism and Sensibility in 179613. The Neutral Situation of Domesticity Index
