British Women Writers and Race, 1788-1818

Narrations of Modernity

E. Wright

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9780230514782
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 The Romantic Period, Race and Enlightened Feminism
• 2 Politics of Population: Empire, Slavery and Race
• 3 The French Revolution and British Raciology
• 4 Moral Economies of Nature, Religion and Science
• Notes and References
• Bibliography
• Index