Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voice of the Enlightenment

Winner, 2011 Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies2009 Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceWinner, 2011 Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies2009 Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceAgainst 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.

ISBN:	9781421418230
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Published date:	15 Dec 2015
Language:	English
Number of pages:	792
Weight:	1132g
Height:	159mm
Width:	235mm
Spine width:	43mm

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