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Author Hofkosh, Sonia.

Title Sexual politics and the romantic author / Sonia Hofkosh
Published Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998

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Description xi, 188 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 29
Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 29
Contents Introduction: invisible girls -- 1. A woman's profession: sexual difference and the romance of authorship -- 2. The writer's ravishment: Byron's body politics -- 3. Classifying romanticism: the milliner girl and the magazines -- 4. Disfiguring economics: Mary Shelley's gift-book stories -- 5. The author's progress: William Hazlitt's Keswick escapade and Sarah Hazlitt's Journal -- 6. Romanticism in the drawing room: Austen's interiority
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-185) and index
Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Romanticism -- Great Britain.
Sex role in literature.
Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Women -- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
LC no. 97018181
ISBN 0521496543