Patricia Comitini: 1 book
Vocational Philanthropy and British Women's Writing, 1790–1810
Wollstonecraft, More, Edgeworth, Wordsworth
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Patricia Comitini's study compels serious rethinking of how literature by women in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries should be read. Beginning with a description of the ways in which evolving conceptions of philanthropy were foundational to constructions of class and gender roles,...
