Winner, 2011 Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 2009 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice. Against the background of the American and French revolutions, the Napoleonic Wars, and the struggle for religious equality in Great Britain, a brilliant, embattled woman strove to defend Enlightenment values to her nation. Poet, teacher, essayist, political writer, editor, and critic, Anna Letitia Barbauld was venerated by contemporaries on both sides of the Atlantic, among them the young Walter Scott, the young Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Boston Unitarians such as William Ellery Channing. After decades in the historical limbo into which almost all work by women writers of her era was swept, Barbauld's writings on citizenly ethics, identity politics, church-state relations, and empire are still deeply relevant today. Inquiring and witty as well as principled and passionate, Barbauld was a voice for the Enlightenment in an age of revolution and reaction. Based on more than fifteen years of research in dozens of libraries and archives across five countries, this is the first full-length biography of one of the foremost women writers in Georgian England.
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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13
9781421418230
eBay Product ID (ePID)
220866038
Product Key Features
Book Title
Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voice of the Enlightenment
Author
William Mccarthy
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
792 Pages
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235mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
1157g
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William Mccarthy
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United States
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