Women Writing the West Indies, 1804-1939
Women Writing the West Indies, 1804-1939

Author: Evelyn O'Callaghan

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9780415288835

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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
The History of British Women's Writing, 1830-1880

Author: Lucy Hartley

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-09-22

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1137584653

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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.

Legacies of British Slave-ownership
Legacies of British Slave-ownership

Author: Catherine Hall

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-08-28

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1107040051

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This book puts the legacies of slavery squarely back into modern British history.

Rule Britannia
Rule Britannia

Author: Deirdre David

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-10-18

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1501723677

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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.