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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Epigraphs Introduction PART 1: THE ROMANTIC PERIOD, RACE AND ENLIGHTENED FEMINISM Race and the Late Eighteenth Century Feminism and the Late Eighteenth Century Literature and Social Theory PART 2: POLITICS OF POPULATION: EMPIRE, SLAVERY AND RACE Empire and Slavery Jane Austen and Empire Poverty, Welfare and Crime Racialized Compassion Sex, Race and Civilization PART 3: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND BRITISH RACIOLOGY Political Imagination and the French Revolution Patriotism Nationalism and War Raciology of Belonging Representation Othering Slavery and Civilization PART 4: MORAL ECONOMIES OF NATURE, RELIGION AND SCIENCE Nature, God and Women Rationality and Human Nature Enlightenment, Romanticism and Racial Subjectivities Romantic Genealogy of Culture Islam Enlightenment and the Raciology of Civilization Christianity and Slavery Catholicism and the Other Education and Patriarchal Relations Women and Science Science and Race Notes and References Bibliography Index
