British Women Writers and the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1785... - 9781472430885

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British Women Writers and the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1785-1835Re-Orienting Anglo-India\nAuthor(s): Kathryn S. Freeman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781472430885, 978-1472430885\nSynopsis\nIn her study of newly recovered works by British women, Kathryn Freeman traces the literary relationship between women writers and the Asiatic Society of Bengal, otherwise known as the Orientalists. Distinct from their male counterparts of the Romantic period, who tended to mirror the Orientalist distortions of India, women writers like Phebe Gibbes, Elizabeth Hamilton, Sydney Owenson, Mariana Starke, Eliza Fay, Anna Jones, and Maria Jane Jewsbury interrogated these distortions from the foundation of gender. Freeman takes a three-pronged approach, arguing first that in spite of their marked differences, female authors shared a common resistance to the Orientalists intellectual genealogy that allowed them to represent Vedic n.