Introduction: Reading and writing the end of the world -- Verbal magic: an etymology of female enthusiasm -- The second coming of Hester Lynch Piozzi -- I, being the representative of liberty: Helen Maria Williams and the utopian performative -- The passion of the gothic heroine: Ann Radcliffe and the origins of narrative -- Anna Barbauld as enlightenment prophet -- Prophesying tragedy: Mary Shelley and the end of Romanticism.
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