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.
- ISBN10 0801480957
- ISBN13 9780801480959
- Publish Date 1 May 1993 (first published 1 January 1993)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 24 January 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Cornell University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 203
- Language English