Description |
viii, 326 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Introduction / Theresa M. Kelley and Paula R. Feldman -- The Gush of the Feminine: How Can We Read Women's Poetry of the Romantic Period? / Isobel Armstrong -- Gendering the Soul / Susan Wolfson -- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, and the Woman Writer's Fate / Stephen Behrendt -- De-Romanticizing the Subject: Maria Edgeworth's "The Bracelets," Mythologies of Origin, and the Daughter's Coming to Writing / Mitzi Myers -- "We Hoped the Woman Was Going to Appear": Repression, Desire, and Gender in Anna Letitia Barbauld's Early Poems / William McCarthy -- Felicia Hemans and the Effacement of Woman / Anthony John Harding -- Resurrection of the Fetish in Gradiva, Frankenstein, and Wuthering Heights / Judith Pike -- Gender, Nationality, and Textual Authority in Lady Morgan's Travel Books / Jeanne Moskal -- Expanding the Limits of Feminine Writing: The Prose Sketches of Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) and Helen Maria Williams / Richard C. Sha |
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Janet Little and Robert Burns: The Politics of the Heart / Moira Ferguson -- "Out of the Pale of Social Kindred Cast": Conflicted Performance Styles in Joanna Baillie's De Monfort / Catherine B. Burroughs -- The Gipsy Is a Jewess: Harriett Abrams and Theatrical Romanticism / Susan Levin -- Mary Robinson and the Literary Marketplace / Judith Pascoe |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-315) and index |
Subject |
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History.
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Romanticism -- Great Britain.
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Author |
Feldman, Paula R.
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Kelley, Theresa M.
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LC no. |
94039710 |
ISBN |
0874517117 alkaline paper |
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0874517249 paperback alkaline paper |
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