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Women writers and the nation's past, 1790-1860 : empathetic histories

Spongberg, Mary, 1965- author

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Subject: Women authors, English Great Britain History 18th century. / Women authors, English Great Britain History 19th century. / Great Britain History 1789-1820 Historiography. / Great Britain History 19th century Historiography.
• ISBN: 1350016721, 9781350016729, 9781350016743, 9781350016736, 1350016748, 135001673X

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR115.S66 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE