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Author

Brown, Laura, 1949-

Title Ends of empire : women and ideology in early eighteenth-century English literature / Laura Brown.

Imprint

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1993.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	820.9005 B813e	---	Available

Description	x, 203 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	The feminization of ideology : an introduction -- The romance of empire : Oroonoko and the trade in slaves -- Staging sexuality : violence and pleasure in the domestic she-tragedy -- Capitalizing on women : dress, aesthetics, and Alexander Pope -- Amazons and Africans : Daniel Defoe --Imperial disclosures : Jonathan Swift.
Subject	English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
	Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
	Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
	Social problems in literature.
	Race relations in literature.
	Imperialism in literature.
	Sex role in literature.
ISBN	0801480957 (pbk.)
	0801428505 (alk. paper)