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Re-Visioning Romanticism : British Women Writers, 1776-1837 /

Re-Visioning Romanticism : British Women Writers, 1776-1837 / ed. by Carol Shiner Wilson, Joel Haefner. - Reprint 2016 - 1 online resource (344 p.) : 4 illus. - Anniversary Collection .

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustration -- Acknowledgment -- Introduction -- Reading Women's Texts -- Mary Robinson's Lyrical Tales in Context -- Becoming an Author: Mary Robinson's Memoirs and the Origins of the Woman Artist's Autobiography -- "A name more dear": Daughters, Fathers, and Desire in A Simple Story, The False Friend, and Mathilda -- Romantic Aspirations, Restricted Possibilities: The Novels of Charlotte Smith -- Gender and the Cultural Matrix -- Configurations of Feminine Reform: The Woman Writer and the Tradition of Dissent -- The Way Above the World: Religion and Gender in Welsh and Anglo-Welsh Women's Writing, 1780-1830 -- "Domestic Affections" and "the spear of Minerva": Felicia Hemans and the Dilemma of Gender -- Lost Needles, Tangled Threads: Stitchery, Domesticity, and the Artistic Enterprise in Barbauld, Edgeworth, Taylor, and Lamb -- Re-Visioning Romantic Aesthetics -- Female Botanists and the Poetry of Charlotte Smith -- Literary History, Romanticism, and Felicia Hemans -- The Politics of Fancy in the Age of Sensibility -- The Romantic Scene (s) of Writing -- English Romantic Women Writers and Theatre Theory: Joanna Baillie's Prefaces to the Plays on the Passions -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1995




Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9780812232318 9781512819373

10.9783/9781512819373 doi


LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

Cultural Studies. Literature.