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

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. 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.

• | Author: E. Wright
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Jan 01, 2005
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781349523016
• | ISBN-10: 1349523011