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Informationen zum Autor Felicity James is Lecturer in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Leicester. Ian Inkster is Research Professor of International History in the Faculty of Humanities at Nottingham Trent University, UK and Professor of Global History in the Department of International Studies at Wenzao Ursuline College, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC. Klappentext Through one outstanding family, these multidisciplinary essays demonstrate the modernising power of religious Dissent across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Zusammenfassung The poet Anna Letitia Barbauld and her family (the Aikins) are recognized for their contributions to literature and scholarship in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. With its multidisciplinary approach to family networks and religious Dissent! this book will appeal to scholars of religion! history of science! biography! geography and literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Religious dissent and the Aikin-Barbauld circle, 1740-1860: an introduction Felicity James; 2. The Rev John Aikin senior: Kibworth School and Warrington Academy with appendix: John Aikin's pupils at Kibworth David L. Wykes; 3. How dissent made Anna Letitia Barbauld, and what she made of dissent William McCarthy; 4. 'And make thine own Apollo doubly thine': John Aikin as literary physician and the intersection of medicine, morality, and politics Kathryn Ready; 5. 'Outline maps of knowledge': John Aikin's geographical imagination Stephen Daniels and Paul Elliott; 6. 'Under the edge of the public': Arthur Aikin, the dissenting mind and the character of English industrialization Ian Inkster; 7. 'The different genius of woman': Lucy Aikin's historiography Michelle Levy; 8. Lucy Aikin and the legacies of dissent Felicity James; 9. The Aikin family, retrospectively Anne F. Janowitz.
