ideological developments mid-victorian wollstonecraft

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Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England (Women in Culture and Society ...

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Mary Poovey

University Of Chicago Press, 1988

gender controversies of the Victorians
Poovey takes us back to controversies of Victorian England, that help illustrate the then prevailing ideology on the role of women in society. The best known example in the book is of course Florence Nightingale. She essentially single handedly was responsible for turning nursing into a respectable profession for working class and middle class women. Especially for military hospitals during times ...

Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain
Mary Poovey

University Of Chicago Press, 2008

How did banking, borrowing, investing, and even losing money?in other words, participating in the modern financial system?come to seem like routine activities of everyday life? Genres of the Credit Economy addresses this question by examining the history of financial instruments and representations of finance in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. Chronicling the process by which some of our most important conceptual categories ...

Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864

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Mary Poovey

University Of Chicago Press, 1995

Overview of Mary Poovey's Making a Social Body
Poovey's book is a collection of seven distinct, but inter-related essays. Poovey, complicates the notion of looking at how identity categories (class, gender, ethnicity, race and so on) fractures a society, by examining how England came to think of itself as constituting a social body in the early to mid parts of the nineteenth century. Poovey suggests that the way to trace this formation, ...

A History of the Modern Fact
Mary Poovey

Univ of Chicago Pr, 1998

A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society
Mary Poovey

University Of Chicago Press, 1998

How did the fact become modernity's most favored unit of knowledge? How did description come to seem separable from theory in the precursors of economics and the social sciences? Mary Poovey explores these questions in A History of the Modern Fact , ranging across an astonishing array of texts and ideas from the publication of the first British manual on double-entry bookkeeping in 1588 to the institutionalization of statistics in the 1830s. ...

Florence Nightingale: 'Cassandra' and 'Suggestions for Thought' (N Y U Press Women's Classics)
Mary Poovey

NYU Press, 1992

"An impressively reasoned and startlingly unorthodox treatise on religion." ? Belles Lettres Florence Nightingale (1820-1920) is famous as the heroine of the Crimean War and later as a campaigner for health care founded on a clean environment and good nursing. Though best known for her pioneering demonstration that disease rather than wounds killed most soldiers, she was also heavily allied to social reform movements and to feminist protest ...

The Financial System in Nineteenth-Century Britain (The Victorian Archives Series, 1)

Oxford University Press, USA, 2002

Featuring primary documents drawn from the Victorian era's business and periodical press, this anthology provides an introduction to the most important features of the financial system in nineteenth-century Britain. Topics covered include currency and credit instruments; the national debt and the stock exchange; banks and the banking system; and the money market, company law, and financial fraud. The documents represent a variety of ...

Cassandra (The Pickering women's classics)
Florence Nightingale

Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd, 1991

Florence Nightingale is famous as the heroine of the Crimean War and later as a campaigner for medical care founded on a clean environment and good nursing. "Suggestions for Thought", which contains the novel "Cassandra", is a central text in 19th century history of feminist thought.

The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, ...
Mary Poovey

University Of Chicago Press, 1985

"A brilliant, original, and powerful book. . . . This is the most skillful integration of feminism and Marxist literary criticism that I know of." So writes critic Stephen Greenblatt about The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer , Mary Poovey's study of the struggle of three prominent writers to accommodate the artist's genius to the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century ideal of the modest, self-effacing "proper lady." Interpreting ...

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