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Gender in Eighteenth-Century England

Roles, Representations and Responsibilities

By: Hannah Barker,Elaine Chalus

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Gender in Eighteenth-Century England

Roles, Representations and Responsibilities

By: Hannah Barker,Elaine Chalus

A new collection of essays which challenges many existing assumptions, particularly the conventional models of separate spheres and economic change. All the essays are specifically written for a student market, making detailed research accessible to a wide readership and the opening chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the subject describing the development of gender history as a whole and the study of eighteenth-century England. This is an exciting collection which is a major revision of the subject.

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1317889126

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9781317889120

Elite Women in English Political Life C.1754-1790

By: Elaine Chalus

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Oxford University Press

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019928010X

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Eighteenth-Century Characters

A Guide to the Literature of the Age

By: Elaine M. McGirr

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Eighteenth-Century Characters

A Guide to the Literature of the Age

By: Elaine M. McGirr

Eighteenth-Century Characters offers a concise introduction to the eighteenth century, using characters as its starting point. Elaine M. McGirr presents contextualized readings of stock characters from canonical and popular literature, such as: - The rake and the fop - The country gentleman - The good woman - The coquette and the prude - The country maid and the town lady - The Catholic, the Protestant and the British Other. Each chapter explores how a character's significance and role changes over the century, illustrating and explaining radical shifts in taste, ideology and style. Also featuring illustrations, a Chronology and a helpful Bibliography and Further Reading section, this essential guide will provide students with the necessary background to understand the period's literature and to embark on further study.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350309354

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9781350309357

Elite Women in English Political Life c.1754-1790

By: Elaine Chalus

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By: Elaine Chalus

Based on wide-ranging, original research into political, personal, and general correspondences across a period of significant social and political change, this book explores the gendered nature of politics and political life in eighteenth-century England by focusing on the political involvement of female members of the political elite. Elaine Chalus challenges the notion that only exceptional women were involved in politics, that their participation was necessarily limited and indirect, and that their involvement was inevitably declining after the 1784 Westminster Election. While exceptional women did exist and gender did condition women's participation, the personal, social, and particularly the familial nature of eighteenth-century politics provided more women with a wider variety of opportunities for involvement than ever before. Women from politically active families grew up with politics, absorbing its rituals, and their own involvement extended from politicized socializing up to borough control and election management. Their participation was often accepted, expected, or even demanded, depending upon family traditions, personal abilities, and the demands of political expediency. Chalus reveals that, although women's involvement in political life was always potentially more problematic than men's, given contemporary concerns about the links between sex, politics, and corruption, their participation was largely unproblematic as long as their activities could be explained by recourse to a familial model which depicted their participation as subordinate and supportive of men's. It was when they came to be seen as the leading political actors in a cause that they overstepped the mark and became targets of sexualized criticism. Contemporary critics worried that politically active women posed a threat to male polity, but what actually made them threatening was that they proved that women were not politically incompetent and implicitly demonstrated that gender was not a reason for political exclusion. Although the dividing line between acceptable and unacceptable female political behaviours was sharper from the late eighteenth century onward, Chalus suggests that women who were willing to work creatively within the familial model could and did remain politically active into - and through - the nineteenth century.

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Clarendon Press

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0191535605

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Gender in Eighteenth-Century England

Roles, Representations and Responsibilities

By: Hannah Barker,Elaine Chalus

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By: Hannah Barker,Elaine Chalus

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1317889134

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Gender in Eighteenth-Century England

Gender in Eighteenth-Century England

Elite Women in English Political Life C.1754-1790

Elite Women in English Political Life C.1754-1790

Eighteenth-Century Characters

Eighteenth-Century Characters

Elite Women in English Political Life c.1754-1790

Elite Women in English Political Life c.1754-1790

Gender in Eighteenth-Century England

Gender in Eighteenth-Century England

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