This book examines the writings of seven English women economists
from the period 1735-1811. It reveals that contrary to what
standard accounts of the history of economic thought suggest,
eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century women intellectuals were
undertaking incisive and gender-sensitive analyses of the economy.
Women's Economic Thought in the Romantic Age argues that
established notions of what constitutes economic enquiry, topics,
and genres of writing have for centuries marginalised the
perspectives and experiences of women and obscured the knowledge
they recorded in novels, memoirs, or pamphlets. This has led to an
underrepresentation of women in the canon of economic theory. Using
insights from literary studies, cultural studies, gender studies,
and feminist economics, the book develops a transdisciplinary
methodology that redresses this imbalance and problematises the
distinction between literary and economic texts. In its in-depth
readings of selected writings by Sarah Chapone, Mary
Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Mary Robinson, Priscilla Wakefield, Mary
Ann Radcliffe, and Jane Austen, this book uncovers the originality
and topicality of their insights on the economics of marriage,
women and paid work, and moral economics. Combining historical
analysis with conceptual revision, Women's Economic Thought in the
Romantic Age retrieves women's overlooked intellectual
contributions and radically breaks down the barriers between
literature and economics. It will be of interest to researchers and
students from across the humanities and social sciences, in
particular the history of economic thought, English literary and
cultural studies, gender studies, economics, eighteenth-century and
Romantic studies, social history, and the history of ideas.
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