JoEllen DeLucia is Professor of English at Central Michigan University. Her publications include A Feminine Enlightenment: British Women Writers and the Philosophy of Progress, 1759-1820 (EUP 2015) and an essay collection, co-edited with Juliet Shields, Migration and Modernities: The State of Statelessness, 1750-1850 (EUP. 2018). She has also just completed a four-volume primary source collection, Gothic Print Culture, 1789-1900 (Routledge, expected 2026), co-edited with Jennifer Camden. In addition to these larger projects, she has published several essays and book chapters on women writers, moral philosophy, and print culture.

A Feminine Enlightenment combines sensitive close reading of little-known texts with a perceptive overview of both eighteenth-century and current critical debates about the relationship between gender, history and economic progress. This book builds upon a large body of feminist scholarship but takes this work in exciting new directions, leading it into an important new phase of development.

• Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Feminine Enlightenment; 1: The Progress of Feeling: The Ossian Poems and Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments; 2: Ossianic History and Bluestocking Feminism; 3: Queering Progress: Anna Seward and Llangollen Vale; 4: Poetry, Paratext, and History in Radcliffe’s Gothic; 5: Stadial Fiction or the Progress of Taste; Epilogue: Women Writers in the Age of Ossian; Bibliography; Index

JoEllen DeLucia is Professor of English at Central Michigan University. Her publications include A Feminine Enlightenment: British Women Writers and the Philosophy of Progress, 1759-1820 (EUP 2015) and an essay collection, co-edited with Juliet Shields, Migration and Modernities: The State of Statelessness, 1750-1850 (EUP. 2018). She has also just completed a four-volume primary source collection, Gothic Print Culture, 1789-1900 (Routledge, expected 2026), co-edited with Jennifer Camden. In addition to these larger projects, she has published several essays and book chapters on women writers, moral philosophy, and print culture.

A Feminine Enlightenment combines sensitive close reading of little-known texts with a perceptive overview of both eighteenth-century and current critical debates about the relationship between gender, history and economic progress. This book builds upon a large body of feminist scholarship but takes this work in exciting new directions, leading it into an important new phase of development.

• Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Feminine Enlightenment; 1: The Progress of Feeling: The Ossian Poems and Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments; 2: Ossianic History and Bluestocking Feminism; 3: Queering Progress: Anna Seward and Llangollen Vale; 4: Poetry, Paratext, and History in Radcliffe’s Gothic; 5: Stadial Fiction or the Progress of Taste; Epilogue: Women Writers in the Age of Ossian; Bibliography; Index