1st Edition
Women Writing Race in the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic Civil Agents
By Kristina Lucenko
Copyright 2025
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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, Gender, and Religion in Anglo-Caribbean Quaker Family Discourse
5 Civility’s Antithesis: Patience Boston, an Indigenous Woman, Tells Her Story
Afterword: Women Writing Whiteness
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Kristina Lucenko is Assistant Professor in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University.
