Ends of Empire: Servants and Employers in Zambia, 1900-1985

In this bold and provocative book, Laura Brown explores the representation of women in English literature from...
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Ends of Empire: Servants and Employers in Zambia, 1900-1985 by Brown, Laura

Ends of Empire: Servants and Employers in Zambia, 1900-1985

$82.85

Ends of Empire: Servants and Employers in Zambia, 1900-1985

$82.85
Author: Laura Brown
Format: Paperback
Language: English

In this bold and provocative book, Laura Brown explores the representation of women in English literature from the Restoration to the fall of Walpole--a time during which an expansionist economic system was consolidated, a fertile ideology advocating a benevolent and progressive imperialism took root, and the slave trade was institutionalized. In this period, she maintains, the image of the female not only played a leading role in literary culture but also profoundly affected mercantile capitalist ideology.

After critical scrutiny of the traditional and revisionist positions in previous approaches to eighteenth-century studies, Brown examines the "feminization of ideology" in relation to notions of racial difference in Benn's Oroonoko and in works by Defoe and Swift. Chapters on the "she-tragedy" and on the writings of Pope focus on images of female sexuality and their relationship to violence against women, to female dressing and identity, and to contemporary notions of aesthetics, as well as to capitalism, commodification, and imperialism.

Redefining issues central to the interpretation of eighteenth-century literature, Ends of Empire will be important reading for students and scholars in the fields of eighteenth-century studies, literary theory and literary history, women's studies, Marxist criticism, and cultural and intellectual history.



Author: Laura Brown
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 03/11/1993
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.80w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9780801480959

About the Author

Laura Brown is John Wendell Anderson Professor of English at Cornell University. She is the author of several books, including Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes: Humans and Other Animals in the Modern Literary Imagination and Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century, both from Cornell.




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