Romanticism: Feminist Intro

ISBN-13: 9780631198956 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 268 str.

Professor Elizabeth Fay

Opis

Elizabeth Fay's invaluable book addresses the student in an immediate and direct manner to provide an unequalled introduction to the issues most important for feminist analyses of Romantic literature.

Recenzje

"Drawing heavily on the many new historical and feminist interrogations of British romantic texts over the last decade, Elizabeth Fay provides a useful overview of the major areas of feminist enquiry into canonical and non–canonical romantic writing. Fay provides several fresh insights into non–canonical texts as well as helpful classifications of the range of women′s writing in the romantic period." Studies in Romanticism <!––end––>

Spis treści

List of Illustrations.

List of Women Writers Discussed.

1 A Feminist Approach to Romantic Studies and the Case of Austen.

Standard Definitions and Revisions.

The Historical Period.

Feminist Theory and Romantic Studies.

Jane Austen, a Case Study.

2 Women and Politics: Writing Revolution.

Letters and the Maternal: Political Metaphors.

Revolution as a Frame of Mind.

Revolutionary Writing.

Maternal Nationalism and Children′s Literature.

3 Women and the Gothic: Literature as Home Politics.

Defining the Gothic.

The Gothic as Domestic: Social Critique Gothics.

Psychological Drama Gothics.

The Romance of Real Life and the Radical Critique.

4 Women and Thought: Intellectual Critique.

The Bluestocking Circle in London.

Dissent and the Rights of the Home.

Women and History.

Literary Criticism as Art.

Intellectuality and the Years of Reaction.

5 Women and Identity: Visuality in Romantic Texts.

Seeing and Seen: The Writer and the Proper Lady.

Display and the Specular Heroine.

Tableaux Vivants, Theatrics and Burney′s The Wanderer.

Conclusion.

Bibliography.

Index.

O autorze

Elizabeth Fay is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She the author of Becoming Wordsworthian: A Performative Aesthetics (1994) and of Eminent Rhetoric (1994).

Blurb

Elizabeth Fay s invaluable book addresses the reader in an immediate and direct manner to provide an unequaled introduction to the issues most important for feminist analyses of Romantic literature. In her opening chapter, Fay offers detailed definitions and a historicized grounding that gives a thorough account of feminist theory s involvement in Romantic studies and provides a rigorous methodology for students to follow, concluding with a highly instructive case study on Jane Austen. Subsequent chapters deal with women and revolutionary politics, the Gothic genre and domestic politics, women and thought, and women and identity, which covers visuality in Romantic texts. Further reading is listed at the end to each chapter. The book includes key illustrations and a comprehensive bibliography.

Writters discussed: Jane Austen, Joanna Baillie, Anna Laeriria Barbauld, Frances Burney, Elizabeth Carter, Hannah Cowley, Charlotte Dacre, Mary Hays, Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Inchbald, Maria Jane Jewbury, Catherine Macaulay Graham, Elizabeth Montagu, hannah More, Ann Radcliffe, Clara Reeve, Mary Robinson, Sarah Scott, Anna Seward, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Smith, Jane Taylor, helen Maria Willaims, Maria Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth.