Women Writers and the Nation's Past 1790-1860
Empathetic Histories
1790 saw the publication of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France -- the definitive tract of modern conservatism as a political philosophy. Though women of the period wrote texts that clearly responded to and reacted against Burke's conception of English history and to the contemporary political events that continued to shape it, this conversation was largely ignored or dismissed, and much of it remains to be reconsidered today.Examining the works of women writers from Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft to the Strickland sisters and Mary Anne Everett Green, this book begins to recuperate that conversation and in doing so unc…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-350-01674-3
- EAN: 9781350016743
- Produktnummer: 29590305
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 248 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'568 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Mary Spongberg is Dean of Arts and Social Sciences and Professor of History at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She has published widely on the history of women & feminism, gender, and the body. She is the editor of the Companion to Women's Historical Writing (2005) and is on the editorial board of Women's History Review.
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