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2 giorni fa · Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN: 9780521774277; 318pp.; Price: £17.99. The history of the Enlightenment can sometimes appear as a male narrative, dominated by canonical male writers, with women appearing only as subjects denied an equality of rationality and ...
3 giorni fa · Historians of feminism note the politicised use to which motherhood was put in the later eighteenth century. Those interested in aristocratic family life or women have also marshalled evidence about the experience and emotions of elite maternity.
3 giorni fa · Rather than fitting her study into a previously established narrative of women's history, McCreery limits her historical scope to the decades that have become known as the 'golden age' of the British satirical print in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
3 giorni fa · Socialism. The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
3 giorni fa · So it’s fascinating to see that one of Thompson’s unfulfilled ambitions was to write a history of the ‘woman question’ in the 1790s. The proposed title was to be ‘The Defeat of the Rights of Woman’ and, according to Dorothy Thompson – a leading historian of Chartism and Edward’s wife – it was intended to explore the impact of counter-revolution on Mary Wollstonecraft’s ...
Laurence Sterne (1713-68) (fn. 47) lived in or near the city from 1738 when he entered on the vicarage of Sutton-on-the-Forest (N.R.) until 1760 when, on the publication of the first two volumes of Tristram Shandy in York, he sprang suddenly into national, indeed international, fame and spent most of the remainder of his life away from the city.
3 giorni fa · Hatshepsut (/ h ɑː t ˈ ʃ ɛ p s ʊ t / haht-SHEPP-sut; c. 1507–1458 BC) was the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Thutmose II and the fifth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, ruling first as regent, then as queen regnant from c. 1479 BC until c. 1458 BC (Low Chronology).
