{"product_id":"catharine-macaulays-republican-enlightenment-9780367498108","title":"Catharine Macaulays Republican Enlightenment","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 contexts 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMacaulay 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 lo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1. The Formation of a Female Republican: Kent, 1731–60 2. Influences from the Scottish Enlightenment: St James’s Place, 1760–66 3. A Republican Coterie; Berners St, 1766–71 4. Wilkes, Fever, and Wilson: London and Bath, 1771–77 5. France, Marriage, and Scandal: 1777–79 6. Completion of the \u003ci\u003eHistory\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eEmergence as a Moral Philosopher: Knightsbridge, 1780–84 7. America and France: 1784–86 8. \u003cem\u003eOn Education\u003c\/em\u003e and the French Revolution: Binfield, Berkshire, 1787–91 9. Macaulay’s Lasting Significance\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017930047831,"sku":"9780367498108","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367498108.jpg?v=1750775104","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/catharine-macaulays-republican-enlightenment-9780367498108","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}