Women writers and the nation's past, 1790-1860 : empathetic histories / Mary Spongberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spongberg, Mary, 1965- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women authors, English--History--18th century.

Women authors, English.

Women authors, English--History--19th century.

Historiography.

Great Britain--History.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--History--18th century.

Great Britain--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Part I. The gender of Whig historiography

Part II. The Queen Caroline 'affair'

Part III. Stuart history as empathetic history.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350016750

1350016756

9781350016743

1350016748

9781350016736

135001673X

OCLC:

1090422856