British Women Writers and Race, 1788-1818: Narrations of Modernity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349523016)

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
ISBN-10: 1349523011
ISBN-13: 9781349523016
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2005
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.51d