Ends of Empire: Women and Idealogy in Early Eighteenth-Century English Literature

by Laura Brown (Author)

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  Paperback
  1993

  $35.04

  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.