Gender And Enlightenment Culture In Eighteenth Century Scotland
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Author | : Rosalind Carr |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2014-01-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0748646434 |
Presents major new research on gender in the Scottish EnlightenmentWhat role did gender play in the Scottish Enlightenment? Combining intellectual and cultural history, this book explores how men and women experienced the Scottish Enlightenment. It examines Scotland in a European context, investigating ideologies of gender and cultural practices among the urban elites of Scotland in the 18th century.The book provides an in-depth analysis of men's construction and performance of masculinity in intellectual clubs, taverns and through the violent ritual of the duel. Women are important actors in this story, and the book presents an analysis of women's contribution to Scottish Enlightenment culture, and it asks why there were no Scottish bluestockings.
Author | : Deborah Simonton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134774923 |
The eighteenth century looms large in the Scottish imagination. It is a century that saw the doubling of the population, rapid urbanisation, industrial growth, the political Union of 1707, the Jacobite Rebellions and the Enlightenment - events that were intrinsic to the creation of the modern nation and to putting Scotland on the international map. The impact of the era on modern Scotland can be seen in the numerous buildings named after the luminaries of the period - Adam Smith, David Hume, William Robertson - the endorsement of Robert Burns as the national poet/hero, the preservation of the Culloden battlefield as a tourist attraction, and the physical geographies of its major towns. Yet, while it is a century that remains central to modern constructions of national identity, it is a period associated with men. Until recently, the history of women in eighteenth-century Scotland, with perhaps the honourable exception of Flora McDonald, remained unwritten. Over the last decade however, research on women and gender in Scotland has flourished and we have an increasingly full picture of women's lives at all social levels across the century. As a result, this is an appropriate moment to reflect on what we know about Scottish women during the eighteenth century, to ask how their history affects the traditional narratives of the period, and to reflect on the implications for a national history of Scotland and Scottish identity. Divided into three sections, covering women's intimate, intellectual and public lives, this interdisciplinary volume offers articles on women's work, criminal activity, clothing, family, education, writing, travel and more. Applying tools from history, art anthropology, cultural studies, and English literature, it draws on a wide-range of sources, from the written to the visual, to highlight the diversity of women's experiences and to challenge current male-centric historiographies.
Author | : Mark C. Wallace |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Clubs |
ISBN | : 9781684482702 |
Author | : Ronnie Young |
Publisher | : Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2016-11-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 161148801X |
This collection of essays explores the role played by imaginative writing in the Scottish Enlightenment and its interaction with the values and activities of that movement. Across a broad range of areas via specially commissioned essays by experts in each field, the volume examines the reciprocal traffic between the groundbreaking intellectual project of eighteenth-century Scotland and the imaginative literature of the period, demonstrating that the innovations made by the Scottish literati laid the foundations for developments in imaginative writing in Scotland and further afield. In doing so, it provide a context for the widespread revaluation of the literary culture of the Scottish Enlightenment and the part that culture played in the project of Enlightenment.
Author | : Leith Davis |
Publisher | : Scottish Literature International |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2021-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781908980311 |
This International Companion shows how Scotland's literary cultures, in English, Gaelic, Latin, and Scots, were transformed in the turbulent age between between 1650 to 1800.
Author | : B. Taylor |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 2005-05-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230554806 |
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.
Author | : Christopher J. Berry |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2013-07-09 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0748645330 |
The most arresting aspect of the Scottish Enlightenment is its conception of commercial society as a distinct and distinctive social formation. Christopher Berry explains why Enlightenment thinkers considered commercial society to be wealthier and freer than earlier forms, and charts the contemporary debates and tensions between Enlightenment thinkers that this idea raised. The book analyses the full range of literature on the subject, from key works like Adam Smith's 'Wealth of Nations', David Hume's 'Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects' and Adam Ferguson's 'Essay on the History of Civil Society' to lesser-known works such as Robert Wallace's 'Dissertation on Numbers of Mankind'.
Author | : Karen O'Brien |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2009-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521773490 |
An original study of how Enlightenment ideas shaped the lives of women and the work of eighteenth-century women writers.
Author | : Jessica L. Fripp |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2021-02-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1644532026 |
Portraiture and Friendship in Enlightenment France examines how new and often contradictory ideas about friendship were enacted in the lives of artists in the eighteenth century. It demonstrates that portraits resulted from and generated new ideas about friendship by analyzing the creation, exchange, and display of portraits alongside discussions of friendship in philosophical and academic discourse, exhibition criticism, personal diaries, and correspondence. This study provides a deeper understanding of how artists took advantage of changing conceptions of social relationships and used portraiture to make visible new ideas about friendship that were driven by Enlightenment thought. Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture Distributed for the University of Delaware Press
Author | : Ian Brown |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2006-11-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0748628622 |
The History begins with the first full-scale critical consideration of Scotland's earliest literature, drawn from the diverse cultures and languages of its early peoples. The first volume covers the literature produced during the medieval and early modern period in Scotland, surveying the riches of Scottish work in Gaelic, Welsh, Old Norse, Old English and Old French, as well as in Latin and Scots. New scholarship is brought to bear, not only on imaginative literature, but also law, politics, theology and philosophy, all placed in the context of the evolution of Scotland's geography, history, languages and material cultures from our earliest times up to 1707.