Likewise, it tracks discussions of “women’s progress” and historical and commercial development from the rarified atmosphere of mid-eighteenth-century Bluestocking salons and the masculine domain of the Scottish university system to the popular Minerva Press novels of the early nineteenth century. Beginning with Smith’s philosophical meditation on feeling in his Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and reaching into the early nineteenth century, A Feminine Enlig htenment connects Smith’s theory of feeling to the sentimental poems and novels of Anna Seward and Regina Maria Roche. By reading women’s literature alongside history and philosophy and moving between the eighteenth century and Romantic era, this book challenges conventional historical and generic boundaries. A Feminine Enlightenment argues that women writers shaped Enlightenment conversations regarding the role of sentiment and gender in the civilizing process.
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