Description
This book relocates the long life and literary career of the poet, playwright, novelist, philanthropist and teacher Hannah More (1745-1833) in the wider social and cultural contexts that shaped her, and which she helped shape in turn. One of the most influential writers and campaigners of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, More’s reputation has suffered unfairly from accusations of paternalism and provincialism, and misunderstandings of her sincerely-held but now increasingly unfamiliar evangelical beliefs. Now, in this book, readers can explore a range of essays rooted in up-to-the-minute research which examines newly-recovered archival materials and other evidence in order to present the fullest picture yet of this complex and compelling author, and the era she helped mould with her words.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Hannah More in Context
Kerri Andrews and Sue Edney
- Tongues in Trees: Hannah More and the Nature Inscription
- Feeling Good: Sentimental Virtue in Hannah More’s The Search After Happiness (1773) and "Sensibility" (1782)
- Defending "Reason’s rein": Rationalism as Persuasive Strategy in Hannah More’s Slavery: A Poem (1788)
- Writing Women at Work
- "Hunger is not a postponable want": Hannah More’s charity reconsidered
- Hannah More’s Percy, A Tragedy, in the Spanish and French Theatrical Contexts
- The Bluestocking and the Preacher: the Bifurcated Reception of Hannah More in Scandinavia
- Hannah More’s Sympathetic Strategies: Coelebs in Search of a Wife and the Evangelical Novel
- Books and Readers in Hannah More’s Coelebs in Search of a Wife
- Hannah More Rediscoveries: Letters, Literary Manuscripts, and Inscribed Books
- Bringing More to the Fore: Championing the life and work of Hannah More in Schools and Community Education
- Hannah More’s Energetic Sociality: Enthusiasms and Consequences
Robin Jarvis
Rose Hilton
Adam Bridgen
Maeve Adams
Kerri Andrews
Begoña Lasa Álvarez
Marie Nedregotten Sørbø
Nicky Lloyd
Joanna Maciulewicz
Nicholas D. Smith
Joanne Edwards
Patricia A. Demers
An Extended Sermon on Hannah More
Rev Paula Hollingsworth
