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Women Writers and the Nation's Past 1790-1860 - Empathetic Histories (Paperback)
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Women Writers and the Nation's Past 1790-1860 - Empathetic Histories (Paperback)
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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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