Nancy M Paxton

Outside Modernism: In Pursuit of the English Novel, 1900-30

George Eliot and Herbert Spencer: Feminism, Evolutionism, and the Reconstruction of Gender

Writing Under the Raj: Gender, Race, and Rape in the British Colonial Imagination, 1830-1947

Writing Under the Raj: Gender, Race, and Rape in the British Colonial Imagination, 1830-1947

Outside Modernism: In Pursuit of the English Novel, 1900-30

Outside Modernism presents original essays that reevaluate a range of English novels written between 1900 and 1930 assigned by critics to a space outside modernism. Drawing on critical perspectives as various as postmodernism, feminism, Marxism, queer theory, and cultural theory, the essays argue fo...

George Eliot and Herbert Spencer: Feminism, Evolutionism, and the Reconstruction of Gender

This analysis of the writings of two major Victorian intellectuals examines the crucial place of gender in the larger Victorian debate about nature, religion, and evolutionary theory. Demonstrating the primacy of Herbert Spencer's influence on George Eliot's thought, Nancy Paxton discloses the conti...

Biography - Paxton, Nancy L. (1949-): An article from: Contemporary Authors Online

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