Women telling nations /
Women Telling Nations highlights how, from the 16th to the 19th centuries, European women, as readers and writers, contributed to the construction of national identities. The book, which presents twenty countries, is divided into four parts. First, we examine how women belonged to nations: they repr...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Editions Rodopi,
2014
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| Series: | Women writers in history ;
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| Summary: | Women Telling Nations highlights how, from the 16th to the 19th centuries, European women, as readers and writers, contributed to the construction of national identities. The book, which presents twenty countries, is divided into four parts. First, we examine how women belonged to nations: they represented territories and political or religious communities in their own style. Second, we deal with the ways in which women wrote the nation: the network of relationships in which they were involved that were not necessarily national or territorial. The legitimation that women writers succeeded in fi |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (462 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1322339430 9042038705 9401211124 9781322339436 9789042038707 9789401211123 |