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British Women Writers and Race, 1788-1818

Narrations of Modernity

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  • © 2005

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  1. Eamon Wright
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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. The Romantic Period, Race and Enlightened Feminism

    • Eamon Wright
    Pages 1-21

  3. Politics of Population: Empire, Slavery and Race

    • Eamon Wright
    Pages 22-49

  4. The French Revolution and British Raciology

    • Eamon Wright
    Pages 50-83

  5. Moral Economies of Nature, Religion and Science

    • Eamon Wright
    Pages 84-127

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 128-204
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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.

About the author

EAMON WRIGHT immigrated to New Zealand in 2002, to live and write. He previously worked in university administration at the London School of Economics.

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