British Women Writers of the Romantic Period: An Anthology of Their Literary Criticism

ISBN-13: 9780230205765 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 256 str.

Mary A. Waters; Mary A. Waters

Opis

This timely anthology offers a broad selection of critical texts--introductions, prefaces, periodical essays, literary reviews--written by women of the Romantic era. The collection offers fuel for some of the most topical debates in British Romantic period studies including professionalism, nationalism and the literary canon.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Elizabeth Moody (1737-1814).- Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825).- Charlotte Smith (1749-1806).- Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821).- Mary Robinson (1758-1800).- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797).- Mary Hays (1760-1843).- Joanna Baillie (1762-1851).- Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823).- Lucy Aikin(1781-1864).- Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan; 1783-1859).- Maria Jane Jewsbury (1800-1833).- Letitia Landon (1802-1838).- Harriet Martineau (1802-1876).- Appendix: Featured Periodicals.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

MARY A. WATERS is Associate Professor of English at Wichita State Univesity, USA.