Women Writers and the Nation's Past 1790-1860

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  • Women Writers and the Nation's Past 1790-1860 Book Detail

  • Author : Mary Spongberg
  • Release Date : 2018-12-27
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 248
  • ISBN 13 : 1350016748
  • File Size : 38,38 MB
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Women Writers and the Nation's Past 1790-1860 by Mary Spongberg PDF Summary

Book Description: 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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