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

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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 emergen...

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Main Author: Wright, Eamon (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Subjects:
Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Ethnicity Studies.
Fiction.
Gender Studies.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
British literature.
Ethnicity.
Gender expression.
Gender identity.
Literature, Modern > 19th century.
Literature, Modern.
Sex (Psychology)
Sociology.
Electronic books.
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XVIII, 204 pages)
ISBN:9780230514782
DOI:10.1057/9780230514782