wyszukanych pozycji: 2
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Writing Under the Raj: Gender, Race, and Rape in the British Colonial Imagination, 1830-1947
ISBN: 9780813526010 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Writing Under the Raj is the first study to challenge the long-held critical assumption that the rape of colonizing women by colonized men was the first, or the only, rape script in British colonial literature. Nancy Paxton asks why rape disappears in British literature about English domestic life in the 1790s and charts its reappearance in British literature about India written between 1830 and 1947. Paxton displays the hybrid qualities of familiar novels like Kipling's Kim and Forster's A Passage to India by situating them in a richly detailed cultural context that...
Writing Under the Raj is the first study to challenge the long-held critical assumption that the rape of colonizing women by colonized men was ...
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147,48 |
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George Eliot and Herbert Spencer: Feminism, Evolutionism, and the Reconstruction of Gender
ISBN: 9780691636566 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This analysis of the writings of two major Victorian intellectuals examines the crucial place of gender in the larger Victorian debate about nature, religion, and evolutionary theory. Demonstrating the primacy of Herbert Spencer's influence on George Eliot's thought, Nancy Paxton discloses the continuous dialogue between this profoundly learned novelist and one of the most formidable and influential scientific authorities of her time. Using rarely cited first editions of Spencer's published works, Paxton reveals that Eliot and Spencer initially agreed in supporting several of the goals of... This analysis of the writings of two major Victorian intellectuals examines the crucial place of gender in the larger Victorian debate about nature... |
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540,95 |