Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain (English, Karen O'Brien)

About the Book

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…

ISBN: 9780521774277