Valerie Wainwright
Biographic Data
| ID | 3950624 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valerie Wainwright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valerie |
| FAMILY NAME | Wainwright |
| SIGNATURE | WAINWRIGHT V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florence |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0517-3811 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Liberal’ Virtues and Values, Women’s ‘Genius’, and the British Literary Reviews, c. 1750–1795
In 1764, while discussing female authors one critic suggested that the views of ‘the liberal’ were normative. But what did it mean to be a ‘liberal’ at this time? This article examines the ‘liberal and enlightened’ patterns of thought popularized by reviewers who belonged to the network of friends and acquaintances of the founders of the Monthly Review , the dissenters Ralph Griffiths and William Rose. Opposing different forms of ‘tyranny’, or au…
Enlightened Man Incarnate”: Mediating Enlightenment in Eighteenth‐Century Literary Reviews
‘Crucial to the Enlightenment’, Roy Porter argued, was the work of ‘critics, knowledge‐mongers, and opinion‐makers’; the critic was ‘enlightened man incarnate’. In order to enhance our understanding of the ways in which exponents of print culture sought to orient public opinion and promote recognizably liberal principles and values, this article will examine both the polemical discourses of prolific literary journalists and the intellectual conte…
Ethics and the English Novel from Austen to Forster
Complicating a pervasive view of the ethical thought of the Victorians and their close relations, which emphasizes the domineering influence of a righteous and repressive morality, Wainwright discerns a new orientation towards an expansive ethics of flourishing or living well in Austen, Gaskell, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy and Forster. In a sequence of remarkable novels by these authors, Wainwright traces an ethical perspective that privileges styles o…
Lippo (di) Vanni
Niccolò di ser Sozzo
The Testing of a Popular Sienese Regime: The "Riformatori" and the Insurrections of 1371
Ethics and the English Novel from Austen to Forster
Complicating a pervasive view of the ethical thought of the Victorians and their close relations, which emphasizes the domineering influence of a righteous and repressive morality, Wainwright discerns a new orientation towards an expansive ethics of flourishing or living well in Austen, Gaskell, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy and Forster. In a sequence of remarkable novels by these authors, Wainwright traces an ethical perspective that privileges styles o…
Liberal’ Virtues and Values, Women’s ‘Genius’, and the British Literary Reviews, c. 1750–1795
In 1764, while discussing female authors one critic suggested that the views of ‘the liberal’ were normative. But what did it mean to be a ‘liberal’ at this time? This article examines the ‘liberal and enlightened’ patterns of thought popularized by reviewers who belonged to the network of friends and acquaintances of the founders of the Monthly Review , the dissenters Ralph Griffiths and William Rose. Opposing different forms of ‘tyranny’, or au…
The Testing of a Popular Sienese Regime: The "Riformatori" and the Insurrections of 1371
The Testing of a Popular Sienese Regime: The "Riformatori" and the Insurrections of 1371
Lippo (di) Vanni
Niccolò di ser Sozzo
Ethics and the English Novel from Austen to Forster
Complicating a pervasive view of the ethical thought of the Victorians and their close relations, which emphasizes the domineering influence of a righteous and repressive morality, Wainwright discerns a new orientation towards an expansive ethics of flourishing or living well in Austen, Gaskell, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy and Forster. In a sequence of remarkable novels by these authors, Wainwright traces an ethical perspective that privileges styles o…
Enlightened Man Incarnate”: Mediating Enlightenment in Eighteenth‐Century Literary Reviews
‘Crucial to the Enlightenment’, Roy Porter argued, was the work of ‘critics, knowledge‐mongers, and opinion‐makers’; the critic was ‘enlightened man incarnate’. In order to enhance our understanding of the ways in which exponents of print culture sought to orient public opinion and promote recognizably liberal principles and values, this article will examine both the polemical discourses of prolific literary journalists and the intellectual conte…
Liberal’ Virtues and Values, Women’s ‘Genius’, and the British Literary Reviews, c. 1750–1795
In 1764, while discussing female authors one critic suggested that the views of ‘the liberal’ were normative. But what did it mean to be a ‘liberal’ at this time? This article examines the ‘liberal and enlightened’ patterns of thought popularized by reviewers who belonged to the network of friends and acquaintances of the founders of the Monthly Review , the dissenters Ralph Griffiths and William Rose. Opposing different forms of ‘tyranny’, or au…
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