Gender and Enlightenment Culture in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

Rosalind Carr is a cultural historian of early modern Scotland. A lecturer in History at the University of East London, she completed her PhD at the University of Glasgow, and has previously taught at the University of Sheffield, and held a postdoctoral fellowship with the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. She has published articles on women and early modern Scottish political history, and on Scottish masculinities.

• Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Gender and Scottish Enlightenment Culture; 1. Masculinity, Homosociality and Intellectual Culture; 2. Women and Intellectual Culture; 3. Urbane and Urban Sociability in Enlightenment Edinburgh; 4. Enlightened Violence? Elite Manhood and the Duel; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography.