Imperialism at Home - Race and Victorian Women's Fiction

Susan Meyer is Associate Professor of English at Wellesley College.

Summary

The implicit link between white women and "the dark races" recurs persistently in nineteenth-century English fiction. Imperialism at Home examines the metaphorical use of race by three nineteenth-century women novelists: Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and George Eliot. Susan Meyer argues that each of these domestic novelists uses race...

Product details

• Authors: Susan Meyer
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.1996
• EAN: 9780801482557
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-8255-7
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 226 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 384 g
• Series: Reading Women Writing; Reading Women Writing
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies