British Women Writers and Race, 1788-1818

EAMON WRIGHT immigrated to New Zealand in 2002, to live and write. He previously worked in university administration at the London School of Economics.

Acknowledgements Epigraphs Introduction PART 1: THE ROMANTIC PERIOD, RACE AND ENLIGHTENED FEMINISM Race and the Late Eighteenth Century Feminism and the Late Eighteenth Century Literature and Social Theory PART 2: POLITICS OF POPULATION: EMPIRE, SLAVERY AND RACE Empire and Slavery Jane Austen and Empire Poverty, Welfare and Crime Racialized Compassion Sex, Race and Civilization PART 3: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND BRITISH RACIOLOGY Political Imagination and the French Revolution Patriotism Nationalism and War Raciology of Belonging Representation Othering Slavery and Civilization PART 4: MORAL ECONOMIES OF NATURE, RELIGION AND SCIENCE Nature, God and Women Rationality and Human Nature Enlightenment, Romanticism and Racial Subjectivities Romantic Genealogy of Culture Islam Enlightenment and the Raciology of Civilization Christianity and Slavery Catholicism and the Other Education and Patriarchal Relations Women and Science Science and Race Notes and References Bibliography Index