Catharine Macaulay's republican enlightenment /
Green, Karen, 1951-
Catharine Macaulay's republican enlightenment / Karen Green. - 1 online resource (viii, 266 pages)
"The 'celebrated' Catharine Macaulay was both lauded and execrated during the eighteenth century for her republican politics and her unconventional, second marriage. This comprehensive biography in the "life and letters" tradition situates her works in their political and social context and offers an unprecedented, detailed account of the content and influence of her writing, the arguments she developed in her eight-volume history of England and her other political, ethical, and educational works. Her disagreements with conservative opponents, David Hume, Edmund Burke, and Samuel Johnson are developed in detail, as is her influence on more progressive admirers such as Thomas Jefferson, Jacques-Pierre Brissot, Mercy Otis Warren, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Macaulay emerges as a coherent and influential political voice, whose attitudes and aspirations were characteristic of those enlightenment republicans who grounded their progressive politics in rational religion. She looked back to the seventeenth century levelers and parliamentarians as important precursors who had advocated the liberty and political rights she aspired to see implemented in Great Britain, America, and France. Her defense of republican liberty and the equal rights of men offers an important corrective to some contemporary accounts of the character and origins of democratic republicanism during this crucial period"--
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Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791.
Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791 --Influence.
Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791 --Political and social views.
Historians--Great Britain--Biography.
Women--Political activity--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Republicanism--History--Great Britain--18th century.
PHILOSOPHY / Political
HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century
DA3.M25 / G74 2020
942.06092 B
Catharine Macaulay's republican enlightenment / Karen Green. - 1 online resource (viii, 266 pages)
"The 'celebrated' Catharine Macaulay was both lauded and execrated during the eighteenth century for her republican politics and her unconventional, second marriage. This comprehensive biography in the "life and letters" tradition situates her works in their political and social context and offers an unprecedented, detailed account of the content and influence of her writing, the arguments she developed in her eight-volume history of England and her other political, ethical, and educational works. Her disagreements with conservative opponents, David Hume, Edmund Burke, and Samuel Johnson are developed in detail, as is her influence on more progressive admirers such as Thomas Jefferson, Jacques-Pierre Brissot, Mercy Otis Warren, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Macaulay emerges as a coherent and influential political voice, whose attitudes and aspirations were characteristic of those enlightenment republicans who grounded their progressive politics in rational religion. She looked back to the seventeenth century levelers and parliamentarians as important precursors who had advocated the liberty and political rights she aspired to see implemented in Great Britain, America, and France. Her defense of republican liberty and the equal rights of men offers an important corrective to some contemporary accounts of the character and origins of democratic republicanism during this crucial period"--
9781000066098 1000066096 9780429342530 0429342535 9781000066074 100006607X 9781000066111 1000066118
(Coutts)057934437
Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791.
Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791 --Influence.
Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791 --Political and social views.
Historians--Great Britain--Biography.
Women--Political activity--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Republicanism--History--Great Britain--18th century.
PHILOSOPHY / Political
HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century
DA3.M25 / G74 2020
942.06092 B