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Vocational Philanthropy and British Women's Writing, 1790-1810 - Wollstonecraft, More, Edgeworth, Wordsworth (Hardcover, New edition)
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Vocational Philanthropy and British Women's Writing, 1790-1810 - Wollstonecraft, More, Edgeworth, Wordsworth (Hardcover, New edition)
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Patricia Comitini's study compels serious rethinking of how
literature by women in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth
centuries should be read. Beginning with a description of the ways
in which evolving conceptions of philanthropy were foundational to
constructions of class and gender roles, Comitini argues that these
changes enabled a particular kind of feminine benevolence that was
linked to women's work as writers. The term 'vocational
philanthropy' is suggestive of the ways that women used their
status as professional writers to instruct men and women in
changing gender relations, and to educate the middling and laboring
classes in their new roles during a socially and economically
turbulent era. Examining works by Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft,
Maria Edgeworth, and Dorothy Wordsworth, whose writing crosses
generic, political, and social boundaries, Comitini shows how women
from diverse backgrounds shared a commitment to philanthropy -
fostering the love of mankind - and an interest in the social
nature of literacy. Their writing fosters sentiments that they
hoped would be shared between the sexes and among the classes in
English society, forging new reading audiences among women and the
lower classes. These writers and their writing exemplify the
paradigm of vocational philanthropy, which gives people not money,
but texts to read, in order to imagine societal improvement. The
effect was to permit the emergence of middle-class values linking
private notions of morality, family, and love to the public needs
for good citizens, industrious laborers, and class consolidation.
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