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Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World

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by Roy Porter


  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

 

 

 


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