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Gender and enlightenment culture in eighteenth-century Scotland, Rosalind Carr

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Gender and enlightenment culture in eighteenth-century Scotland, Rosalind Carr

Language

eng

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Gender and enlightenment culture in eighteenth-century Scotland

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electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

871637967

Responsibility statement

Rosalind Carr

Series statement

Cambridge books online

Summary

What role did gender play in the Scottish Enlightenment? Combining intellectual and cultural history, this book explores how men and women experienced the Scottish Enlightenment. It examines Scotland in a European context, investigating ideologies of gender and cultural practices among the urban elites of Scotland in the 18th century. The book provides an in-depth analysis of men's construction and performance of masculinity in intellectual clubs, taverns and through the violent ritual of the duel. Women are important actors in this story, and the book presents an analysis of women's contribution to Scottish Enlightenment culture, and it asks why there were no Scottish bluestockings--, Provided by Publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction: Gender and Scottish Enlightenment Culture 1 - Masculinity, Homosociality and Intellectual Culture 2 - Women and Intellectual Culture 3 - Urbane and Urban Sociability in Enlightenment Edinburgh 4 - Enlightened Violence? Elite Manhood and the Duel Conclusion

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Gender & Enlightenment Culture in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

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