The Female Philosopher and Her Afterlives

Deborah Weiss is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Alabama, USA. She is a specialist in the long eighteenth century with research interests in the interconnections among gender, economics, education, and Enlightenment. Her articles have appeared in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Studies in Romanticism, The Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies, and Studies in the Novel.

Introduction: The Female Philosopher.- 1.Mansions of Despair: The Wrongs of Woman and the Commonality of Experience.-  2.Passions of the Mind: The Moral Martyrdom of Emma Courtney.- 3.More of a Philosopher: Adeline Mowbray and "Every-Day Nature".- 4.Intellectual Rules:  The Extraordinary Ordinary Belinda.- 5. Empirical Ethics:  Sense and Sensibility and Female Philosophy.- Conclusion: The Fate of the Female Philosopher:  Polwhele, More, Byron, and Beyond.- Index.- 

"The Female Philosopher and Her Afterlives is ... not only an intriguing piece of literary analysis, it also represents a modest but noteworthy intervention in literary history." (Laura Kirkley, European Romantic Review, Vol. 30 (4), 2019)

“The Female Philosopher and Her Afterlives is … not only an intriguing piece of literary analysis, it also represents a modest but noteworthy intervention in literary history.” (Laura Kirkley, European Romantic Review, Vol. 30 (4), 2019)