Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World
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women's rights xxi, 16, 294, 325–38
education 322, 326, 331, 333, 334, 335, 336, 342, 343, 344, 436
female attacks on 336–8
for married women 274, 320–21, 324, 325, 329, 333–4
property ownership 321
public position 324, 325–7, 331–2
suffrage 336 see also individual liberty
Wood, Samuel:
Strictures on the Gout 153
Woodforde, Parson James 96, 218
Woodward, John: An Essay towards a Natural History of the Earth 301
Woolston, Thomas 8, 114–15, 116
Six Discourses 114
Wordsworth, William 133
on French Revolution 447
Lyrical Ballads 366
Prelude 291, 447
working class 19, 146, 206–7, 211–13, 266–7, 364–82, 433
advancement for 365, 370–71
attitudes to 364–5, 367–70, 373–4, 381–2
crime among 377
drunkenness among 371–2
working class – cont.
education for 346, 347, 370–71, 377–8, 433–4
folk culture 365–6
language 370
Poor Laws 214, 376–8, 381, 413
popular culture 218, 266, 277, 365–6, 381–2, 434
population levels 379–81
poverty among 19, 227, 374–82, 450–51, 454, 472, 473
prostitution among 271–2, 372–3
as radicals 449, 451, 452
as servants 364–5, 370
wage levels 377
workhouses 378–9 see also rural life
Worthington, William 74, 236
Wotton, William:
Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning 52–3
Wright, Joseph (Wright of Derby) 316, 430–31
Arkwright's Mill… 316, 431
Experiment… in the Air Pump 350
York 40, 73
York Agricultural Society 307
York Retreat 217
Young, Arthur 41, 241, 308–9, 377, 429, 465
as editor of Annals of Agriculture 308
on enclosure 309, 317
on industrialization 315
Young, Edward 99
The Complaint (Night Thoughts) 303–4
Conjectures on Original Composition 280
Young, William 45
young people see children/young people
Table of Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
1 A BLIND SPOT?
2 THE BIRTH OF AN IDEOLOGY
3 CLEARING AWAY THE RUBBISH
4 PRINT CULTURE
5 RATIONALIZING RELIGION
6 THE CULTURE OF SCIENCE
7 ANATOMIZING HUMAN NATURE
8 THE SCIENCE OF POLITICS
9 SECULARIZING
10 MODERNIZING
11 HAPPINESS
12 FROM GOOD SENSE TO SENSIBILITY
13 NATURE
14 DID THE MIND HAVE A SEX?
15 EDUCATION: A PANACEA?
16 THE VULGAR
17 THE PURSUIT OF WEALTH
18 REFORM
19 PROGRESS
20 THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA: ‘MODERN PHILOSOPHY’
21 LASTING LIGHT?
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Table of Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
1 A BLIND SPOT?
2 THE BIRTH OF AN IDEOLOGY
3 CLEARING AWAY THE RUBBISH
4 PRINT CULTURE
5 RATIONALIZING RELIGION
6 THE CULTURE OF SCIENCE
7 ANATOMIZING HUMAN NATURE
8 THE SCIENCE OF POLITICS
9 SECULARIZING
10 MODERNIZING
11 HAPPINESS
12 FROM GOOD SENSE TO SENSIBILITY
13 NATURE
14 DID THE MIND HAVE A SEX?
15 EDUCATION: A PANACEA?
16 THE VULGAR
17 THE PURSUIT OF WEALTH
18 REFORM
19 PROGRESS
20 THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA: ‘MODERN PHILOSOPHY’
21 LASTING LIGHT?
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX