Gender and Enlightenment Culture in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

Informationen zum Autor Rosalind Carr is Lecturer in History at the University of East London. Klappentext Combines intellectual and cultural history to explore how men and women experienced the Scottish Enlightenment. It examines Scotland in a European context, investigating ideologies of gender and cultural practices among the urban elites of Scotland in the eighteenth century, from the violent ritual of duel, to the absence of Scottish bluestockings. Zusammenfassung Combines intellectual and cultural history to explore how men and women experienced the Scottish Enlightenment. It examines Scotland in a European context, investigating ideologies of gender and cultural practices among the urban elites of Scotland in the eighteenth century, from the violent ritual of duel, to the absence of Scottish bluestockings.

Product details

• Authors: Rosalind Carr
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.01.2014
• EAN: 9780748646425
• ISBN: 978-0-7486-4642-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Scottish Historical Review Monographs; Scottish Historical Review Monographs; Scottish Historical Review Mon
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries