Author: Catharine Macaulay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108067565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
A landmark in female historiography, this eight-volume work (1763-83) traces and champions English political liberty during the seventeenth century.
The History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line
Author: Catharine Macaulay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108067565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
A landmark in female historiography, this eight-volume work (1763-83) traces and champions English political liberty during the seventeenth century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108067565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
A landmark in female historiography, this eight-volume work (1763-83) traces and champions English political liberty during the seventeenth century.
The History of England from the Accession of James I. to that of the Brunswick Line
The History of England, from the Accession of James I. to that of the Brunswick Line
Author: Catharine Macaulay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Catharine Macaulay's Republican Enlightenment
Author: Karen Green
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000066118
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
The ‘celebrated’ Catharine Macaulay was both lauded and execrated during the eighteenth century for her republican politics and her unconventional, second marriage. This comprehensive biography in the 'life and letters' tradition situates her works in their political and social contexts and offers an unprecedented, detailed account of the content and influence of her writing, the arguments she developed in her eight-volume history of England and her other political, ethical, and educational works. Her disagreements with conservative opponents, David Hume, Edmund Burke, and Samuel Johnson are developed in detail, as is her influence on more progressive admirers such as Thomas Jefferson, Jacques-Pierre Brissot, Mercy Otis Warren, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Macaulay emerges as a coherent and influential political voice, whose attitudes and aspirations were characteristic of those enlightenment republicans who grounded their progressive politics in rational religion. She looked back to the seventeenth-century levellers and parliamentarians as important precursors who had advocated the liberty and political rights she aspired to see implemented in Great Britain, America, and France. Her defence of republican liberty and the equal rights of men offers an important corrective to some contemporary accounts of the character and origins of democratic republicanism during this crucial period.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000066118
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
The ‘celebrated’ Catharine Macaulay was both lauded and execrated during the eighteenth century for her republican politics and her unconventional, second marriage. This comprehensive biography in the 'life and letters' tradition situates her works in their political and social contexts and offers an unprecedented, detailed account of the content and influence of her writing, the arguments she developed in her eight-volume history of England and her other political, ethical, and educational works. Her disagreements with conservative opponents, David Hume, Edmund Burke, and Samuel Johnson are developed in detail, as is her influence on more progressive admirers such as Thomas Jefferson, Jacques-Pierre Brissot, Mercy Otis Warren, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Macaulay emerges as a coherent and influential political voice, whose attitudes and aspirations were characteristic of those enlightenment republicans who grounded their progressive politics in rational religion. She looked back to the seventeenth-century levellers and parliamentarians as important precursors who had advocated the liberty and political rights she aspired to see implemented in Great Britain, America, and France. Her defence of republican liberty and the equal rights of men offers an important corrective to some contemporary accounts of the character and origins of democratic republicanism during this crucial period.
Women, Gender and Enlightenment
Author: B. Taylor
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230554806
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Did women have an Enlightenment? This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the controversial, innovative role played by women and gender issues in the age of light.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230554806
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Did women have an Enlightenment? This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the controversial, innovative role played by women and gender issues in the age of light.
The Cambridge History of English Litterature
The Cambridge history of English literature
Neoclassical History and English Culture
Author: P. Hicks
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230376150
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This book looks at neo-classicism as a context for understanding early-modern English historical writing, and traces the implications of neo-classical history for English political culture at large. By paying close attention to historical genres and audiences, it reassesses both the famous and lesser-known historians of this era, dramatizing them as engaged in a struggle to preserve ancient models of historical composition in the face of a rapidly modernizing society characterized by party politics, print, Christianity, and antiquarian erudition.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230376150
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This book looks at neo-classicism as a context for understanding early-modern English historical writing, and traces the implications of neo-classical history for English political culture at large. By paying close attention to historical genres and audiences, it reassesses both the famous and lesser-known historians of this era, dramatizing them as engaged in a struggle to preserve ancient models of historical composition in the face of a rapidly modernizing society characterized by party politics, print, Christianity, and antiquarian erudition.
The Cambridge History of English Literature: The age of Johnson
Author: Sir Adolphus William Ward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description