Material Enlightenment - Women Writers and the Science of Mind, 1770-1830

A methodologically innovative account of the role of women writers in the development of early psychological theory and practice in the long eighteenth century.

List of contents

Introduction
'Things Themselves': Anna Letitia Barbauld's Lessons and Hymns
Honora Edgeworth and the 'experimental science' of education
Profession and occlusion: Hannah More's 'vital Christianity'
Clearing out the 'rubbish': Elizabeth Hamilton's domestic philosophy
'The spirit of industry': Maria Edgeworth's object lessons
Afterword
Bibliography

About the author

Joanna Wharton

Summary

A methodologically innovative account of the role of women writers in the development of early psychological theory and practice in the long eighteenth century.

Product details

• Authors: Joanna Wharton
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781783272952
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-295-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 166 mm x 242 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 579 g
• Series: Studies in the Eighteenth Century; Studies in the Eighteenth Cent; Studies in the Eighteenth Century; Studies in the Eighteenth Cent
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous