Locke and the Ladies. On Eighteenth-Century Female Republicans in England
Prof. Karen Green (University of Melbourne) Course Description This course will focus on the reception of John Locke's classical liberalism and republicanism among women in 18th-Century England, particularly Catharine Trotter Cockburn and Catharine Macaulay. It will begin with a discussion of recent controversies over the role of Locke in the development of republicanism (Pocock, Israel, […]
