
Women of Letters
Gender, Writing and the Life of the Mind in Early Modern England
Leonie Hannan(Author)
Manchester University Press
Will be published approx. on 28. June 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-1-5261-2719-8 (ISBN)
Description
Women of letters writes a new history of English women's intellectual worlds using their private letters as evidence of hidden networks of creative exchange. The book argues that many women of this period engaged with a life of the mind and demonstrates the dynamic role letter-writing played in the development of ideas. Until now, it has been assumed that women's intellectual opportunities were curtailed by their confinement in the home. This book illuminates the household as a vibrant site of intellectual thought and expression. Amidst the catalogue of day-to-day news in women's letters are sections dedicated to the discussion of books, plays and ideas. Through these personal epistles, Women of letters offers a fresh interpretation of intellectual life in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, one that champions the ephemeral and the fleeting in order to rediscover women's lives and minds.
This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5, Gender equality. -- .
This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5, Gender equality. -- .
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Illustrations, black & white|Tables
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
281 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-2719-8 (9781526127198)
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E-Book
06/2016
Manchester University Press
€29.99
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Person
Leonie Hannan is Research Fellow in the School of History and Anthropology at Queen's University, Belfast -- .
Content
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Women and learning
1. Getting started
2. Becoming an intellectual
Part II: Putting pen to paper
3. Writing and thinking
4. Spaces for writing
Part III: Hearts and minds
5. Connecting reason and emotion
6. A seedbed for change
Appendix
Bibliography
Index -- .
List of tables
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Women and learning
1. Getting started
2. Becoming an intellectual
Part II: Putting pen to paper
3. Writing and thinking
4. Spaces for writing
Part III: Hearts and minds
5. Connecting reason and emotion
6. A seedbed for change
Appendix
Bibliography
Index -- .