Women of Letters - Gender, Writing and the Life of the Mind in Early Modern England

Informationen zum Autor Leonie Hannan is a Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century History at Queen's University, Belfast Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figuresList of tablesAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsIntroductionPart I: Women and learning 1. Getting started2. Becoming an intellectualPart II: Putting pen to paper3. Writing and thinking4. Spaces for writing Part III: Hearts and minds5. Connecting reason and emotion6. A seedbed for changeAppendixBibliographyIndex

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• Authors: Dr. Leonie Hannan, Leonie Hannan, Leonie Hannan Is Research Fellow in the
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.05.2016
• EAN: 9780719099427
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9942-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Gender in History; Gender in History Mup
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories