Women Writing Race in the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic: Civil Agents
Author:   Kristina Lucenko
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032497327


Pages:   176
Publication Date:   20 May 2025
Format:   Hardback
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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. The women studied in this book were writing in various textual modes and span boundaries of ideology, class, religion and race: Royalist writer Margaret Cavendish; notorious “German princess” Mary Carleton; early Quaker missionaries to Barbados Lydia Fell, Alice Curwen, and Elizabeth Hooton; and Patience Boston, a Native woman from Monomoy on Cape Cod. As this book explores, women writing in the early English Atlantic engaged civility as a concept and an idiom whose racialist implications were becoming codified. Some of the women analyzed embraced and leveraged the practice of civility as a form of agency, while others resisted and were marginalized by it.

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Author:   Kristina Lucenko
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781032497327


ISBN 10:   1032497327
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   20 May 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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 and Gender in Anglo-Caribbean Quaker Family Discourse 5 Civility’s Antithesis: Patience Boston, an Indigenous Woman, Tells Her Story Afterword: Women Writing Whiteness Bibliography Index

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

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