Introduction: the progress of society 1. Anglican Whig feminism in England, 1690-1760: self-love, reason and social benevolence 2. From savage to Scotswoman: the history of femininity 3. Roman, Gothic and medieval women: the historicisation of womanhood, 1750-c.1804 4. Catharine Macaulay's Histories of England: liberty, civilisation and the female historian 5. Good manners and partial civilisation in the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft 6. The history women and the population men, 1760-1830 Bibliography.

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Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain

The eighteenth century witnessed the publication of an unprecedented number of voyages and travels, genuine and fictional. Within a genre distinguished by its diversity, curiosity, and experimental impulses, Katrina O'Loughlin investigates not just how women in the eighteenth century experienced travel, but also how travel writing facilitated their participation in literary and political culture. She canvases a range of accounts by intrepid women, including Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters, Lady Craven's Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople, Eliza Justice's A Voyage to Russia, and Anna Maria Falconbridge's Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone. Moving from Ottoman courts to theatres of war, O'Loughlin shows how gender frames access to people and spaces outside Enlightenment and Romantic Britain, and how travel provides women with a powerful cultural form for re-imagining their place in the world.

Women, Writing, and Travel in the Eighteenth Century

The events of the plague epidemic that afflicted Eyam, a small village in Derbyshire, in 1665-6 have made the village famous. It attracts tens of thousands of visitors each year, making it an epicentre of Europe's plague heritage. The story of Eyam's plague is told as an exemplary narrative of heroic self-sacrifice, in which the villagers suffer in self-imposed isolation in order to save the county from the disease. It is, however, largely a fiction, a romantic tragedy constructed on a slender basis of evidence in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This paper examines the process by which this narrative emerged and was subsequently adapted and revised over three centuries. It shows how the plague story became a prominent part of English heritage, a basic element in understanding the space and past of the village, and the foundation of its tourist trade. The construction of the plague story offers an unusually clear case study in the social and intellectual dynamics of the creation of heritage and history, and the transformations that have occurred in the epistemic and disciplinary foundations of academic and popular literary and historical production over this period. The influence of changing ideas of social order and discipline, of familial duties and emotions, and of communal responsibility can be clearly traced through the various iterations of the plague story. It also allows us to explore the more specific interactions of epidemiology, disease and histories of disease.

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A dreadful heritage: interpreting epidemic disease at Eyam, 1666-2000.

Introduction: reading and writing the End of the World 1. Verbal magic: an etymology of female enthusiasm 2. The second coming of Hester Lynch Piozzi 3. 'I, being the representative of liberty': Helen Maria Williams and the Utopian performative 4. The passion of the Gothic heroine: Ann Radcliffe and the origins of narrative 5. Anna Barbauld as Enlightenment prophet 6. Prophesying tragedy: Mary Shelley and the end of Romanticism Epilogue.

Romantic Women Writers, Revolution and Prophecy : Rebellious Daughters, 1786-1826

The 35th anniversary of the ASECS Women's Caucus offers an opportunity to celebrate the impact on eighteenth-century studies of scholarship produced by those who support and participate in the work of the Caucus. This essay joins that celebration by offering a broadly drawn sketch of some representative questions and methods that have emerged since the Caucus was founded in 1975, by observing trends in current work, and by broaching some predictions about directions that scholarly work by members of the Caucus might be expected to take in the future. (1) Over the past thirty-five years, scholarship by members of the Women's Caucus has been immense and varied--in fact, so immense and varied (and from such a variety of disciplinary contexts, theoretical positions, and scholarly investments, and in such a variety of formats) that no single essay could adequately recognize it all. For that reason, I make no effort at "coverage." Instead, this essay will delineate broad trends that have characterized a small subset of Caucus members' work--book-length, gender-oriented interpretations of British prose fiction. This contracted focus reflects my own specialized interests and the limits of the essay form, not the true shape of what has been accomplished or some special representational function of gender-oriented scholarship on prose fiction. The richness of recent work in contexts not addressed here could provoke any number of essays similar to this one--and I hope it may do so. The final three decades of the twentieth century witnessed the development of a number of new critical orientations committed to recognizing what Roxann Wheeler has called "categories of difference." (2) Gender difference was among the earliest such categories to be addressed, and, by now, work that takes gender fundamentally into account has provided eighteenth-century studies with a vastly expanded set of textual objects and authorial personae, as well as new methods and purposes. This essay concentrates on that process of development. Scholarship, like so much else, tends to proceed in fits and starts, according to the somewhat mysterious momentum of trends. Widespread interest in a new subject or method often builds from an initially slow response to new research that only gradually comes to influence other scholars' work. Pioneering scholars republish previously out-of-print primary texts; deploy innovative interpretive methods toward unlikely textual subjects; or produce provocative rubrics for previously overlooked or dismissed categories of writing, writers, textual production, or readers. When there has accrued what we might call a critical mass of this kind of groundbreaking research--enough to suggest a significant body of previously obscured work and to demonstrate the value of recovering and reading it and to suggest appropriate methods for interpreting it--scholarly focus shifts, first to recognize the existence of the new object or method of study, then to take it fully on board. Increasing numbers of scholars get interested; momentum grows. Subsequent critics build on the work that came before and over time, together, map out a new discipline. Gender-oriented scholarship on eighteenth-century British fiction emerged in precisely this way. At first, such studies introduced a new subject unfamiliar to many scholars, even threatening to some. Gradually, through the efforts of unnumbered scholars over many years, long-lost eighteenth-century voices came to the attention of scholars and students--in academic journals and books, on course syllabi, and in scholarly editions on library shelves. Gender-oriented work on prose fiction became intellectually and professionally acceptable, then indispensable. By now, such studies have in their turn spawned further previously unthought directions for research. THE 1970s AND 1980s During the 1970s, in response to the wider women's movement, the research opportunities made plain by work such as John Richetti's Popular Fiction Before Richardson (1969) began to be exploited by scholars interested in expanding the canon to include women and other "others. …

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The Achievement of Scholarly Authority for Women: Trends in the Interpretation of Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Until recently, history writing has been understood as a male enclave from which women were restricted, particularly prior to the nineteenth century. The first book to look at British women writers and their contributions to historiography during the long eighteenth century, British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820, asks why, rather than writing history that included their own sex, some women of this period chose to write the same kind of history as men-one that marginalized or excluded women altogether. But as Devoney Looser demonstrates, although British women's historically informed writings were not necessarily feminist or even female-focused, they were intimately involved in debates over and conversations about the genre of history. Looser investigates the careers of Lucy Hutchinson, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Charlotte Lennox, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Austen and shows how each of their contributions to historical discourse differed greatly as a result of political, historical, religious, class, and generic affiliations. Adding their contributions to accounts of early modern writing refutes the assumption that historiography was an exclusive men's club and that fiction was the only prose genre open to women.

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