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1. Introduction 1. Introduction
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2. Movements within Victorian Metaphysics 2. Movements within Victorian Metaphysics
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3. Constance Naden’s Hylo-Idealism 3. Constance Naden’s Hylo-Idealism
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4. Victoria Welby on Spirit 4. Victoria Welby on Spirit
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5. Arabella Buckley’s Divine, Spiritual Cosmos 5. Arabella Buckley’s Divine, Spiritual Cosmos
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6. Comparing the Metaphysics of Naden, Welby, and Buckley 6. Comparing the Metaphysics of Naden, Welby, and Buckley
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Metaphysical Idealists in Britain: Constance Naden, Victoria Welby, and Arabella Buckley
Get accessEmily Thomas is Associate Professor in Philosophy at Durham University. Prior to this she obtained a PhD from the University of Cambridge, and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Groningen. She has published widely on the history of metaphysics, especially space and time. She is the author of the scholarly monograph Absolute Time: Rifts in Early Modern British Metaphysics (2018, Oxford University Press) and the trade book The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad (Oxford University Press, 2020). Thomas’ work has been funded by the NOW, the AHRC, and the British Academy; in 2020 she won a Leverhulme Prize for excellence in research.
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Published:16 August 2023
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Abstract
Idealists agree that reality is somehow mental, holding, say, that reality comprises consciousness or spirit. Idealism can be developed in many different ways and, before the distinctive movement known as “British idealism” emerged, other idealisms were present in Britain. This chapter offers the first-ever study of female idealists in nineteenth-century Britain. It identifies six pertinent women, and focuses on three of them, exploring the idealist metaphysics of Constance Naden, Victoria Welby, and Arabella Buckley. It situates their idealisms in the context of Victorian metaphysics; shows that each developed a different kind of idealism, drawing on varied sources from Kant to Herbert Spencer; and contrasts their idealisms with one another.
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