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Description
ix, 275 pages ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-265) and index.
Contents
Introduction. Romanticism, gender and genre -- Part I. Masculine romanticism: Gender in masculine romanticism -- Part II. Feminine romanticism: "A revolution in female manners" -- The rational woman -- Family politics -- Domesticating the sublime -- Exhausting the beautiful -- Writing the self/self writing: William Wordsworth's 'Prelude'/Dorothy Wordsworth's 'Journals' -- Part III. Ideological cross-dressing: John Keats/Emily Brontė -- Conclusion. Why "romanticism"?
Summary
Taking twenty women writers of the Romantic period, Romanticism and Gender explores a neglected period of the female literary tradition, and for the first time gives a broad overview of Romantic literature from a feminist perspective.
