British Women Writers and Race, 1788-1818: Narrations of Modernity

British Women Writers and Race, 1788-1818: Narrations of Modernity
ISBN-10
0230514782
ISBN-13
9780230514782
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
204
Language
English
Published
2005-03-01
Publisher
Springer
Author
E. Wright

Description

This book presents a unique sociological examination of British raciology, focusing on women's literary works of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and drawing from a range of academic disciplines, particularly literature, history and cultural studies. Wright traces the emergence of British modernity through the writings of a select group of women writers (including Jane Austen, Hannah More, Fanny Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and Maria Edgeworth) of diverse political and philosophical affiliations, and fills a gap in scholarship on feminist accounts of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century women's writing.

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