Research Catalog

Title

The correspondence of Catharine Macaulay / edited by Karen Green.

Author

Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791.

Publication

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]

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Details

Additional Authors

Green, Karen, 1951-

Description

xxii, 320 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"Catharine Macaulay was a celebrated republican historian, whose account of the reasons for the seventeenth-century English Revolution, the parliamentary period, and its aftermath was widely read by the mothers and fathers of American Independence and by central players in the French Revolution. As well as publishing an eight volume history spanning the period from the accession of James I to the Glorious Revolution of 1688, she wrote political pamphlets, offered a sketch of a republican constitution for Corsica, advocated parliamentary reform, and published a response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. Her Letters on Education of 1790 made a decisive impact on the thought of Mary Wollstonecraft, and her Treatise on the Immutability of Moral Truth opposed the skeptical and utilitarian attitudes being developed by Hume and others. This volume brings together for the first time all the available letters between her and her wide-ranging correspondents, who include George Washington, John Adams, Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, James Otis, Benjamin Rush, David Hume, James Boswell, Thomas Hollis, John Wilkes, Horace Walpole, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville, and many other luminaries of the eighteenth-century enlightenment. It includes an extended introduction to her life and works and offers unique insight into the thinking of her friends and correspondents during the period between 1760 and 1790, the crucible for the development of modern representative democracies. The Correspondence of Catharine Macaulay will appeal to scholars of philosophy, political thought, women's studies, and eighteenth-century history, as well as those interested in the development of democratic ideas"--

Series Statement

Oxford new histories of philosophy

Uniform Title

• Correspondence. Selections
• Oxford new histories of philosophy.

Alternative Title

Correspondence.

Subjects

• Women historians
• Political science > Philosophy
• Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791
• Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791 > Friends and associates
• Women historians > Great Britain > Correspondence
• Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791 > Correspondence
• Great Britain
• 1700-1799
• Political science > Philosophy > History > 18th century
• Women historians > Great Britain > Biography
• Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791 > Political and social views
• Friendship
• History
• Biographies
• Political and social views
• Personal correspondence

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• History.
• Personal correspondence.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Life and works -- The letters.

Call Number

JFE 19-12065

ISBN

• 9780190934460
• 0190934468
• 9780190934453
• 019093445X

LCCN

• 2019004329
• 40029464931

OCLC

1089873842

Author

Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791.

Title

The correspondence of Catharine Macaulay / edited by Karen Green.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Oxford new histories of philosophy

Oxford new histories of philosophy.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1700-1799

Added Author

Green, Karen, 1951- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791. Correspondence of Catharine Macaulay. New York : Oxford University Press, [2019] 9780190934477 (DLC) 2019010933

Other Standard Identifier

40029464931

Research Call Number

JFE 19-12065