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Some of the theories Genlis adopts in the education of the
eponymous children have their roots in Rousseau's "Emile". However,
Genlis herself suggested that Rousseau knew little of the practical
education of children. This work is placed within the context of
the late eighteenth-century debate on female education.
This collection comprises selected essays from a conference held at
Chawton House Library in March 2006. It focuses on women writers as
translators who interpreted and mediated across cultural boundaries
and between national contexts in the period 1700-1900. In this
period, which saw women writers negotiating their right to central
positions in the literary marketplace, attitudes to and enthusiasm
for translations were never fixed. This volume contributes to our
understanding of the waxing and waning of the importance of
translation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Rejecting
from the outset the notion of translations as 'defective females',
each essay engages with the author it discusses as an innovator,
and investigates to what extent she viewed her labours not as
hack-work, nor as an interpretation of the original text, but
rather as a creative original. Authors discussed are from Britain,
France, Germany, Spain, Turkey and North America and include
figures now best known for their other publications, such as Mary
Wollstonecraft, Isabelle de Charriere, Therese Huber and Elizabeth
Barrett Browning as well as lesser-known writers such as Fatma
Aliye, Anna Jameson and Anne Gilchrist.
This book is about mapping the future of eighteenth-century women's
writing and feminist literary history, in an academic culture that
is not shy of declaring their obsolescence. It asks: what can or
should unite us as scholars devoted to the recovery and study of
women's literary history in an era of big data, on the one hand,
and ever more narrowly defined specialization, on the other?
Leading scholars from the UK and US answer this question in
thought-provoking, cross-disciplinary and often polemical essays.
Contributors attend to the achievements of eighteenth-century women
writers and the scholars who have devoted their lives to them, and
map new directions for the advancement of research in the area.
They collectively argue that eighteenth-century women's literary
history has a future, and that feminism was, and always should be,
at its heart. Featuring a Preface by Isobel Grundy, and a
Postscript by Cora Kaplan.
This book focuses on how Austen's life and work is being re-framed
and re-imagined in 20th and 21st century literature and culture.
Tracing the connections between Modernist Austen in the early C20th
and feminist and post-feminist appropriations in the later C20th,
it examines how Austen emerged as a complex point of reference on
the global stage.
This book focuses on how Austen's life and work is being re-framed
and re-imagined in 20th and 21st century literature and culture.
Tracing the connections between Modernist Austen in the early C20th
and feminist and post-feminist appropriations in the later C20th,
it examines how Austen emerged as a complex point of reference on
the global stage.
Published in 1783, this translation was hugely popular in late
eighteenth-century Britain. It was read as a system of education by
authors such as Catherine Macaulay, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria
Edgeworth and Clara Reeve, and is mentioned at the end of Jane
Austen's Emma. Some of the theories Genlis adopts in the education
of the eponymous children have their roots in Rousseau's Emile.
However, Genlis herself suggested that Rousseau knew little of the
practical education of children, and she endeavors to rectify this
in her own novel, focusing particularly on the education of the
female child, Adelaide. This important and influential work can
therefore be placed within the context of the late
eighteenth-century debate on female education.
Anna Letitia Barbauld: New Perspectives is the first collection of
essays on poet and public intellectual Anna Letitia Barbauld
(1743-1825). By international scholars of eighteenth-century and
Romantic British literature, these new essays survey Barbauld's
writing from early to late: her versatility as a stylist, her
poetry, her books for children, her political writing, her
performance as editor and reviewer. They explore themes of
sociability, materiality, and affect in Barbauld's writing, and
trace her reception and influence. Rooted in enlightenment
philosophy and ethics and dissenting religion, Barbauld's work
exerted a huge impact on the generation of Wordsworth and
Coleridge, and on education and ideas about childhood far into the
nineteenth century. William McCarthy's introduction explores the
importance of Barbauld's work today, and co-editor Olivia Murphy
assesses the commentary on Barbauld that followed her rediscovery
in the early 1990s. Anna Letitia Barbauld: New Perspectives is the
indispensible introduction to Barbauld's work and current thinking
about it.
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