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Objects of Liberty: British Women Writers and Revolutionary Souvenirs: EARLY MODERN FEMINISMS

Autor Pamela Buck
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 mar 2024 – vârsta ani
Objects of Liberty explores the prevalence of souvenirs in British women’s writing during the French Revolution and Napoleonic era. It argues that women writers employed the material and memorial object of the souvenir to circulate revolutionary ideas and engage in the masculine realm of political debate. While souvenir collecting was a standard practice of privileged men on the eighteenth-century Grand Tour, women began to partake in this endeavor as political events in France heightened interest in travel to the Continent. Looking at travel accounts by Helen Maria Williams, Mary Wollstonecraft, Catherine and Martha Wilmot, Charlotte Eaton, and Mary Shelley, this study reveals how they used souvenirs to affect political thought in Britain and contribute to conversations about individual and national identity. At a time when gendered beliefs precluded women from full citizenship, they used souvenirs to redefine themselves as legitimate political actors. Objects of Liberty is a story about the ways that women established political power and agency through material culture.


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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781644533338
ISBN-10: 1644533332
Pagini: 202
Ilustrații: 13 color and 13 b-w images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.07 kg
Editura: University of Delaware Press
Colecția University of Delaware Press
Seria EARLY MODERN FEMINISMS


Notă biografică

PAMELA BUCK is associate professor of English at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. Her research focuses primarily on women’s writing and material culture in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature.

Cuprins

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Helen Maria Williams’ Sentimental Objects in Letters from France
2. Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Spectacle in An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution
3. Imperial Collecting in Catherine and Martha Wilmot’s Travel Journals
4. Charlotte Eaton’s Battlefield Relics in Narrative of a Residence in Belgium

Conclusion: Refiguring the Revolution in Mary Shelley’s Rambles in Germany and Italy

Notes
Bibliography
Index
 

Descriere

Objects of Liberty explores the prevalence of souvenirs in six British women’s travel accounts of the French Revolution and Napoleonic era. Using a methodology informed by literary, gender, and material culture studies, it argues that women writers employed the souvenir to circulate political ideas and contribute to conversations about individual and national identity.