Small Change - Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810

During the second half of the eighteenth century, the social role of educated women and the nature of domesticity were the focus of widespread debate in Britain. The emergence of an identifiably feminist voice in that debate is the subject of Harriet Guest's new study, which explores how small changes in the meaning of patriotism and the relations between public and private categories permitted educated British women to imagine themselves as political subjects.

About the author

Harriet Guest is a director of the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies and senior lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. She is the author of "A Form of Sound Words" and co-editor of Johann Reinhold Forster's "Observations Made during a Voyage round the World."

Summary

During the second half of the 18th century, the social role of educated women and the nature of domesticity were the focus of widespread debate in Britain. This work explores how small changes in the meaning of patriotism permitted educated women to imagine themselves as political subjects.

Product details

• Authors: Harriet Guest
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2000
• EAN: 9780226310527
• ISBN: 978-0-226-31052-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 486 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies