The Female Romantics: Nineteenth-Century Women Novelists and Byronism

ISBN-13: 9780415995412 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 270 str.

Caroline Franklin;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

Presents a study that focuses on the dynamic interaction between Byron and Madame de Stael, Lady Morgan, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen, and the reaction to Byronism of the Brontes and Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Spis treści

1. Aristocratic Romanticism: Women travellers, Byron and the Gendering of Italy  2.‘Thunder Without Rain’: Mary Shelley, Byronic Prometheanism and Romantic Idealism  3. Cutting The Corsair down to size: Lady Caroline Lamb’s Ada Reis and George Sand’s L’Uscoque  4. ‘The interest is very strong, especially for Mr Darcy’: Jane Austen, Byron and romantic love  5. "My voice shall with thy future visions blend": Byron’s daughters, Lady Byron and Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall  6. "Happiness is not a potato": Byron, Belgium and the romantic feminism of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Villette  7. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Romantic racism and her pathology of Byronic Masculinity

O autorze

Caroline Franklin is Professor of English at the University of Wales, Swansea, where she is Director of the Centre for Research into Gender and Culture.