Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition

by Hilda L. Smith (Editor)

This collection of essays studies political writings by women from 1400 to 1800, and moves beyond the much more common discussion of women's literary works, political roles, or the operation of gender in politics generally. The book has a novel, dual to focus on women's political writings during a period when women were discouraged from expressing political thoughts, and to analyze how the intellectual and social institutions of the age directed both women's political (or nonpolitical) existence and their ability to express, and to have heard by others, their political opinions.

408 pages, Hardcover

First published March 26, 1998

Reviews

[dean · Rating 4 out of 5]

has possibly one of pococks best essays on catharine macaulay. i want to tattoo „the mental world of mary wollstonecraft is already very different from that of catharine macaulay - less classical, less rhetorical, less theatrical. one does not feel that wollstonecraft wanted to be a roman matron or a goddess of liberty, but macaulay of course played the part“ on my skin.