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1 online resource (298 pages) |
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Cambridge Studies in Romanticism |
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Cambridge studies in Romanticism.
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Cover; Romantic Women Writers, Revolution, and Prophecy; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: reading and writing the end of the world; Romantic millenarianism and the female tradition of prophecy; Revolution, prophecy, and the social contract; Romantic prophecy and speech-act theory; Chapter 1 Verbal magic: an etymology of female enthusiasm; The Civil War and a new tradition of female prophecy; Female prophecy in the eighteenth century; Sensibility and excess: female enthusiasm on trial; The French Revolution and radical female enthusiasm |
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Germaine de Staël: nationalism and female enthusiasmChapter 2 The Second Coming of Hester Lynch Piozzi; Alpha and omega; Corilla and The Florence Miscellany; Thraliana, the French Revolution, and visions of "N'Apollione"; Etymology and catastrophe: The Diversions of Purley and British Synonymy; Retrospection; Chapter 3 "I, being the representative of Liberty": Helen Maria Williams and the utopian performative; "Moral weeping," typology, and female sensibility: Williams's early poetry; Julia and the limits of prophecy; Letters Written in France and the new millennium |
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"Spectacles of horror": the passion of female sensibilityChapter 4 The Passion of the Gothic heroine: Ann Radcliffe and the origins of narrative; Typology and the Gothic heroine; "Holy enthusiasm filled her heart": gender and mysticism in A Sicilian Romance; The Romance of the Forest: Adeline as prophetess; "You speak like a heroine": The Mysteries of Udolpho and the dangers of romance; The Italian: the Passion of the Gothic heroine; "Look Deep to the Novel and Mark What I Say": Joanna Southcott and The Romance of the Forest; Chapter 5 Anna Barbauld as Enlightenment prophet |
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"The daring flight controul": Barbauld's early poems"The writing on the wall": Barbauld as radical prophetess; "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"; Chapter 6 Prophesying tragedy: Mary Shelley and the end of Romanticism; Prophecy and monstrosity: the tragedies of Frankenstein and Mathilda; The beginning and the end of the female prophetic tradition: Beatrice and Euthanasia; Female prophecy and the demonic: The Last Man as rhetorical Apocalypse; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book challenges our current critical understanding of the relations between gender, genre and literary authority in this period |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Romanticism -- Great Britain
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Prophecy in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English fiction
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English fiction -- Women authors
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Prophecy in literature
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Romanticism
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Frauenliteratur
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Englisch
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Weissagung
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Författare -- romantiken -- Storbritannien -- 1700-talet -- 1800-talet.
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Litteraturvetenskap.
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Skräck.
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Romantiken.
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Kvinnliga författare.
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Kvinnliga profeter.
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Revolutioner i litteraturen.
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Profetior i litteraturen.
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Samhällsförändring i litteraturen.
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1107333326 |
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9781107333321 |
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9781139208840 |
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1139208845 |
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9781107336643 |
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9781107332560 |
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1107335817 |
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9781107335813 |
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