Women Writers and the Nation's Past 1790-1860

Name: Women Writers and the Nation's Past 1790-1860
Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
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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 uncovers a more complete and nuanced picture of women's participation in the writing of history. Professor Mary Spongberg puts forward an alternate, feminized historiography of Britain that demonstrates how women writers' recourse to history caused them to become generically innovative and allowed them to participate in the political debates that framed the emergence of modern British historiography, and to push back against the Whig interpretation of history that predominated from 1790-1860.

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Number of Pages:: 244
Release Date:: 2018-12-27
Publication Date:: 2018-12-27
Publisher:: Bloomsbury Academic
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1350016721
ISBN13:: 9781350016729
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 534 g
Height:: 161 cm
Width:: 240 cm
Thickness:: 18 cm

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