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Conduct Literature for Women, Part IV, 1770-1830 vol 2
About this book
This collection aims to give a chronological insight into the evolution of conduct literature, from its early roots in the Renaissance period through to the dramatically different role that women played at the emergence of the 20th century. The material presented in this six-volume set moves away from courtly etiquette, adopting a more middle-class, domestic focus, and includes facsimile reproductions of sermons, poems, narratives and cookery books.Social and literary historians recognise the 1790s as a moment of political crisis and turbulence in British history: the intense reactions in Britain to increasing revolutionary violence in France politicised almost every aspect of cultural life. At the centre of discursive hostilities was the opposition between sentimentality, on the one hand, and rationality, on the other. Two of the most important literary forms utilised for expressing these polemics were novels and treatises on education, as well as conduct writing. Conduct Literature for Women IV, 1770-1830 makes available this body of writing, which has been less well studied in respect to the war of ideas than the former two.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- John Bennett, extracts from Letters to a Young Lady, on a variety of Useful and Interesting Subjects calculated to improve the heart, to form the manners, and enlighten the understanding (1789)
- Richard Polwhele, extract from Discourses on Different Subjects, 2nd edn (1791)
- [Laetitia Matilda Hawkins], extract from Letters on the Female Mind, its Powers and Pursuits; with particular reference to the Dangerous Opinions Contained in the Writings of Miss H. M. Williams, 2nd edn (1801)
- Robert Gillet, extract from The Pleasures of Reason: or, the Hundred Thoughts of a Sensible Young Lady (1796)
- Editorial Notes