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

Wright, E.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2005-03-01

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403945495

DOI: 10.1057/9780230514782

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 204