Women Writers and the Nation's Past 1790-1860: Empathetic Histories

by Mary Spongberg

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350168815
• ISBN13: 9781350168817
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"