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- catalog abstract ""British women writers were enormously influential in the creation of public opinion and political ideology during the years from 1780 to 1830. Anne Mellor demonstrates the many ways in which they attempted to shape British public policy and cultural behavior in the areas of religious and governmental reform, education, philanthropy, and patterns of consumption. She argues that the theoretical paradigm of the "doctrine of the separate spheres" may no longer be valid." "Surveying all the genres of literature - drama, poetry, fiction, non-fiction prose, and literary criticism - Mellor shows how women writers promoted a new concept of the ideal woman as rationally educated, sexually self-disciplined, and above all, virtuous. This New Woman, these writers said, was better suited to govern the nation than were its current fiscally irresponsible, lecherous, and corruptible male rulers." "Beginning with Hannah More, Mellor argues that women writers, who were too often dismissed as conservative or retrogressive, instead promoted a revolution in cultural mores. She discusses writers as diverse as Elizabeth Inchbald, Hannah Cowley, and Joanna Baillie: Charlotte Smith, Anna Barbauld, and Lucy Aikin; Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Reeve, and Anna Seward; and concludes with extended analyses of Charlotte Smith's Desmond and Jane Austen's Persuasion. She thus documents women writers' full participation in that very discursive public sphere which Habermas so famously restricted to men of property."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11545988.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Politics and government 1760-1820.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Politics and government 1820-1830.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Beginning with Hannah More, Mellor argues that women writers, who were too often dismissed as conservative or retrogressive, instead promoted a revolution in cultural mores. She discusses writers as diverse as Elizabeth Inchbald, Hannah Cowley, and Joanna Baillie: Charlotte Smith, Anna Barbauld, and Lucy Aikin; Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Reeve, and Anna Seward; and concludes with extended analyses of Charlotte Smith's Desmond and Jane Austen's Persuasion. She thus documents women writers' full participation in that very discursive public sphere which Habermas so famously restricted to men of property."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""British women writers were enormously influential in the creation of public opinion and political ideology during the years from 1780 to 1830. Anne Mellor demonstrates the many ways in which they attempted to shape British public policy and cultural behavior in the areas of religious and governmental reform, education, philanthropy, and patterns of consumption. She argues that the theoretical paradigm of the "doctrine of the separate spheres" may no longer be valid."".
- catalog description ""Surveying all the genres of literature - drama, poetry, fiction, non-fiction prose, and literary criticism - Mellor shows how women writers promoted a new concept of the ideal woman as rationally educated, sexually self-disciplined, and above all, virtuous. This New Woman, these writers said, was better suited to govern the nation than were its current fiscally irresponsible, lecherous, and corruptible male rulers."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-163) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Women and the Public Sphere in England, 1780-1830 -- 1. Hannah More, Revolutionary Reformer -- 2. Theater as the School of Virtue -- 3. Women's Political Poetry -- 4. Literary Criticism, Cultural Authority, and the Rise of the Novel -- 5. The Politics of Fiction: Desmond; Persuasion -- Postscript: The Politics of Modernity.".
- catalog extent "172 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Mothers of the nation.".
- catalog identifier "025321369X (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0253337135 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Mothers of the nation.".
- catalog isPartOf "Women of letters (Bloomington, Ind.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Women of letters".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Bloomington : Indiana University Press,".
- catalog relation "Mothers of the nation.".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Politics and government 1760-1820.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Politics and government 1820-1830.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "820.9/358 21".
- catalog subject "English literature 18th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English literature 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English literature Women authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PR468.P57 M45 2000".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature Great Britain History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature England History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature England History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Women authors, English Political and social views.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Women and the Public Sphere in England, 1780-1830 -- 1. Hannah More, Revolutionary Reformer -- 2. Theater as the School of Virtue -- 3. Women's Political Poetry -- 4. Literary Criticism, Cultural Authority, and the Rise of the Novel -- 5. The Politics of Fiction: Desmond; Persuasion -- Postscript: The Politics of Modernity.".
- catalog title "Mothers of the nation : women's political writing in England, 1780-1830 / Anne K. Mellor.".
- catalog type "text".