Women Writing Race in the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic - Civil Agents

Women Writing Race in the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic: Civil Agents highlights early modern women writers' invocations of civility to reach for the privileges of whiteness.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 "I keep up the Right of my place": Margaret Cavendish Protects White Womanhood
3 "What harme have I done in pretending to great Titles?": Civility as White Innocence and White Property in Mary Carleton's Narratives
4 Civilizing Quakers: Race, Gender, and Religion in Anglo-Caribbean Quaker Family Discourse
5 Civility's Antithesis: Patience Boston, an Indigenous Woman, Tells Her Story
Afterword: Women Writing Whiteness
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Kristina Lucenko is Assistant Professor in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University.

Product details

• Authors: Kristina Lucenko
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032497327
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3249732-7
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination