Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-282) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: the female philosopher -- Mansions of despair: The wrongs of woman and the commonality of experience -- Passions of the mind: the moral martyrdom of Emma Courtney -- More of a philosopher: Adeline Mowbray and "every-day nature" -- Intellectual rules: the extraordinary Belinda -- Empirical ethics: Sense and sensibility and female philosophy -- The fate of the female philosopher: Polwhele, More, Byron, and beyond.
Series:
Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and the cultures of print
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