Author: Theodora Elizabeth Lynch
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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The cotton-tree; or, Emily, the little West Indian
Author: Theodora Elizabeth Lynch
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Publisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Women Writing the West Indies, 1804-1939
Author: Evelyn O'Callaghan
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415288835
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This pioneering study surveys 19th and 20th century narratives of the West Indies written by white women, English and Creole, with special regard to 'race' and gender.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415288835
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This pioneering study surveys 19th and 20th century narratives of the West Indies written by white women, English and Creole, with special regard to 'race' and gender.
The History of British Women's Writing, 1830-1880
Author: Lucy Hartley
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137584653
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
This volume charts the rise of professional women writers across diverse fields of intellectual enquiry and through different modes of writing in the period immediately before and during the reign of Queen Victoria. It demonstrates how, between 1830 and 1880, the woman writer became an agent of cultural formation and contestation, appealing to and enabling the growth of female readership while issuing a challenge to the authority of male writers and critics. Of especial importance were changing definitions of marriage, family and nation, of class, and of morality as well as new conceptions of sexuality and gender, and of sympathy and sensation. The result is a richly textured account of a radical and complex process of feminization whereby formal innovations in the different modes of writing by women became central to the aesthetic, social, and political formation of British culture and society in the nineteenth century.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137584653
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
This volume charts the rise of professional women writers across diverse fields of intellectual enquiry and through different modes of writing in the period immediately before and during the reign of Queen Victoria. It demonstrates how, between 1830 and 1880, the woman writer became an agent of cultural formation and contestation, appealing to and enabling the growth of female readership while issuing a challenge to the authority of male writers and critics. Of especial importance were changing definitions of marriage, family and nation, of class, and of morality as well as new conceptions of sexuality and gender, and of sympathy and sensation. The result is a richly textured account of a radical and complex process of feminization whereby formal innovations in the different modes of writing by women became central to the aesthetic, social, and political formation of British culture and society in the nineteenth century.
Rule Britannia
Author: Deirdre David
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501723677
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Deirdre David here explores women's role in the literature of the colonial and imperial British nation, both as writers and as subjects of representation. David's inquiry juxtaposes the parliamentary speeches of Thomas Macaulay and the private letters of Emily Eden, a trial in Calcutta and the missionary literature of Victorian women, writing about thuggee and emigration to Australia. David shows how, in these texts and in novels such as Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son, Wilkie Collins's Moonstone, and H. Rider Haggard's She, the historical and symbolic roles of Victorian women were linked to the British enterprise abroad. Rule Britannia traces this connection from the early nineteenth-century nostalgia for masculine adventure to later patriarchal anxieties about female cultural assertiveness. Missionary, governess, and moral ideal, promoting sacrifice for the good of the empire—such figures come into sharp relief as David discusses debates over English education in India, class conflicts sparked by colonization, and patriarchal responses to fears about feminism and race degeneration. In conclusion, she reveals how Victorian women, as writers and symbols of colonization, served as critics of empire.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501723677
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Deirdre David here explores women's role in the literature of the colonial and imperial British nation, both as writers and as subjects of representation. David's inquiry juxtaposes the parliamentary speeches of Thomas Macaulay and the private letters of Emily Eden, a trial in Calcutta and the missionary literature of Victorian women, writing about thuggee and emigration to Australia. David shows how, in these texts and in novels such as Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son, Wilkie Collins's Moonstone, and H. Rider Haggard's She, the historical and symbolic roles of Victorian women were linked to the British enterprise abroad. Rule Britannia traces this connection from the early nineteenth-century nostalgia for masculine adventure to later patriarchal anxieties about female cultural assertiveness. Missionary, governess, and moral ideal, promoting sacrifice for the good of the empire—such figures come into sharp relief as David discusses debates over English education in India, class conflicts sparked by colonization, and patriarchal responses to fears about feminism and race degeneration. In conclusion, she reveals how Victorian women, as writers and symbols of colonization, served as critics of empire.
Legacies of British Slave-Ownership
Author: Catherine Hall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316061248
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
This book re-examines the relationship between Britain and colonial slavery in a crucial period in the birth of modern Britain. Drawing on a comprehensive analysis of British slave-owners and mortgagees who received compensation from the state for the end of slavery, and tracing their trajectories in British life, the volume explores the commercial, political, cultural, social, intellectual, physical and imperial legacies of slave-ownership. It transcends conventional divisions in history-writing to provide an integrated account of one powerful way in which Empire came home to Victorian Britain, and to reassess narratives of West Indian 'decline'. It will be of value to scholars not only of British economic and social history, but also of the histories of the Atlantic world, of the Caribbean and of slavery, as well as to those concerned with the evolution of ideas of race and difference and with the relationship between past and present.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316061248
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
This book re-examines the relationship between Britain and colonial slavery in a crucial period in the birth of modern Britain. Drawing on a comprehensive analysis of British slave-owners and mortgagees who received compensation from the state for the end of slavery, and tracing their trajectories in British life, the volume explores the commercial, political, cultural, social, intellectual, physical and imperial legacies of slave-ownership. It transcends conventional divisions in history-writing to provide an integrated account of one powerful way in which Empire came home to Victorian Britain, and to reassess narratives of West Indian 'decline'. It will be of value to scholars not only of British economic and social history, but also of the histories of the Atlantic world, of the Caribbean and of slavery, as well as to those concerned with the evolution of ideas of race and difference and with the relationship between past and present.
DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 464
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The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie Stephen
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1360
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Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1360
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Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie Stephen
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1358
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Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1358
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The Dictionary of National Biography, Founded in 1882 by George Smith
Author: Sir Leslie Stephen
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1396
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Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1396
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The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Sir Leslie Stephen
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1374
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Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1374
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