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1) The Irish and the imagination of race: White supremacy across the Atlantic in the nineteenth century
Author
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This book analyzes the role of Irishness in the nineteenth-century constructions of race and racialization, both in the British Isles and in the United States. Centering the years immediately preceding the American Civil War, it asks how the seemingly liberationist politics of many mid-nineteenth-century Irish nationalist writers could fail to comprehend the ethical necessity of opposing both race-based chattel enslavement in the United States and...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A remarkable work about women writers in the Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period and brings us in close to four women who were committed to their craft before there was any possibility of "a room of one's own." In a sparkling and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespearean England, Ramie Targoff carries us from the sumptuous coronation of Queen Elizabeth in the mid 16th century into the private lives of four women...
Author
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Laboring Mothers merges and expands on two feminist dialogues to create a novel transatlantic cultural history of eighteenth-century working motherhood. Addressing both historical women and representations of a "type," the book demonstrates how ideas about the public sphere and maternity interacted to create systems of power and privilege among working mothers"--
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