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Real and Imagined Women in British Romanticism

Author : Gaura Shankar Narayan
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1433104113

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Real and Imagined Women in British Romanticism by Gaura Shankar Narayan Pdf

"Real and Imagined Women in British Romanticism uses feminist ideology and deconstructive criticism to reconstruct the cultural context embedded in Romantic canonical texts. To achieve this end, the book undertakes a close textual study of these texts and places them in the intellectual context of Mary Wollstonecraft's critique of culture. As a result of intellectual contextuallzing as well as theoretical applications, the Romantic imagination, as represented by William Wordsworth and John Keats, emerges as the place where gender division and gender certitude break down. This book intervenes in the traditional critical debates about the Romantic imagination to show that the Romantic imagination, as set forth in these texts, registers the vigorous cultural politics of gender and aesthetics that defined the 1790s and continued to exert influence for decades." --Book Jacket.

Gendering Walter Scott

Author : C.M. Jackson-Houlston
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317129585

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Gendering Walter Scott by C.M. Jackson-Houlston Pdf

Employing gender as a unifying critical focus, Caroline Jackson-Houlston draws on the full range of Walter Scott’s novels to propose new links between Scott and Romantic-era authors such as Sophia Lee, Jane Porter, Jane Austen, Sydney Owenson, Elizabeth Hands, Thomas Love Peacock, and Robert Bage. In Scott, Jackson-Houlston suggests, sex and violence are united in a central feature of the genre of romance, the trope of raptus—the actual or threatened kidnapping of a woman and her subjection to physical or psychic violence. Though largely favouring the Romantic-period drive towards delicacy of subject-matter and expression, Scott also exhibited a residual sympathy for frankness and openness resisted by his publishers, especially towards the end of his career, when he increasingly used the freedoms inherent in romance as a mode of narrative to explore and critique gender assumptions. Thus, while Scott’s novels inherit a tradition of chivalric protectiveness towards women, they both exploit and challenge the assumption that a woman is always essentially definable as a potential sexual victim. Moreover, he consistently condemns the aggressive male violence characteristic of older models of the hero, in favour of restraint and domesticity that are not exclusively feminine, but compatible with the Scottish Enlightenment assumptions of his upbringing. A high proportion of Scott’s female characters are consistently more rational than their male counterparts, illustrating how he plays conflicting concepts of sexual difference off against one another. Jackson-Houlston illuminates Scott’s ambivalent reliance on the attractions of sex and violence, demonstrating how they enable the interrogation of gender convention throughout his fiction.

Displaced

Author : Kate Rose
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000036039

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Displaced by Kate Rose Pdf

Through specific and rigorous analysis of contemporary literary texts, this book shows how writers from inside affected communities portray indigeneity, displacement, and trauma. In a world of increasing global inequality, this study aims to demonstrate how literature, and the study of it, can effect positive social change, notably in the face of global environmental, economic, and social injustice. This collection brings together a diverse and compelling array of voices from academics leading their fields around the world, to pioneer a new approach to literary analysis anchored in engagement with our changing world.

Betwixt and Between

Author : Brenda Ayres
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783086863

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Betwixt and Between by Brenda Ayres Pdf

Betwixt and Between identifies the biases, errors and ambiguities that have run rampant in the biographies on Mary Wollstonecraft, many of them left unchecked and perpetuated from publication to publication. Brenda Ayres investigates the agenda, problems and strengths of eighteen critical biographies, beginning with William Godwin’s Memoirs (1798), ending with Charlotte Gordon’s Romantic Outlaws (2015) and including ten lesser-known biographies. Betwixt and Between synthesizes the biographies, exposes gaps and contradictions, and attempts to fill and reconcile them, supplying in the process considerable information on Wollstonecraft that has never before been published.

Virginia Woolf and Heritage

Author : Jane De Gay,Tom Breckin,Anne Reus
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781942954422

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Virginia Woolf and Heritage by Jane De Gay,Tom Breckin,Anne Reus Pdf

Virginia Woolf was deeply interested in the past - whether literary, intellectual, cultural, political or social - and her writings interrogate it repeatedly. She was also a great tourist and explorer of heritage sites in England and abroad. This book brings together an international team ofworld-class scholars to explore how Woolf engaged with heritage, how she understood and represented it, and how she has been represented by the heritage industry.

Brown Romantics

Author : Manu Samriti Chander
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611488227

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Brown Romantics by Manu Samriti Chander Pdf

Brown Romantics: Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century proceeds from the conviction that it is high time for the academy in general and scholars of European Romanticism to acknowledge the extensive international impact of Romantic poetry. Chander demonstrates the importance of Romantic notions of authorship to such poets as Henry Derozio (India), Egbert Martin (Guyana), and Henry Lawson (Australia), using the work of these poets, each prominent in the national cultural of his own country, to explain the crucial role that the Romantic myth of the poet qua legislator plays in the development of nationalist movements across the globe. The first study of its kind, Brown Romantics examines how each of these authors develop poetic means of negotiating such key issues as colonialism, immigration, race, and ethnicity.

Tears, Liquids and Porous Bodies in Literature Across the Ages

Author : Norbert Lennartz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350186989

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Tears, Liquids and Porous Bodies in Literature Across the Ages by Norbert Lennartz Pdf

Taking in works from writers as diverse as William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Charlotte Brontë, John Keats, James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence, this book spans approximately 300 years and unpacks how bodily liquidity, porosity and petrification recur as a pattern and underlie the chequered history of the body and genders in literature. Lennartz examines the precarious relationship between porosity and its opposite – closure, containment and stoniness – and explores literary history as a meandering narrative in which 'female' porosity and 'manly' stoniness clash, showing how different societies and epochs respond to and engage with bodily porosity. This book considers the ways that this relationship is constantly renegotiated and where effusive and 'feminine' genres, such as 'sloppy' letters and streams of consciousness, are pitted against stony and astringent forms of masculinity, like epitaphs, sonnets and the Bildungsroman.

Women in British Romantic Theatre

Author : Catherine Burroughs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521662249

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Women in British Romantic Theatre by Catherine Burroughs Pdf

First published in 2000, this collection of essays focuses on women theatre artists in the romantic period.

Women, Epic, and Transition in British Romanticism

Author : Elisa Beshero-Bondar
Publisher : University of Delaware
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781611490701

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Women, Epic, and Transition in British Romanticism by Elisa Beshero-Bondar Pdf

Women, Epic, and Transition in British Romanticism argues that early nineteenth-century women poets contributed some of the most daring work in modernizing the epic genre. The book examines several long poems to provide perspective on women poets working with and against men in related efforts, contributing together to a Romantic movement of large-scale genre revision. Women poets challenged longstanding categorical approaches to gender and nation in the epic tradition, and they raised politically charged questions about women's importance in moments of historical crisis. While Romantic epics did not all engage in radical questioning or undermining of authority, this study calls attention to some of the more provocative poems in their approach to gender, culture, and history. This study prioritizes long poems written by and about women during the Romantic era, and does so in context with influential epics by male contemporaries. The book takes its cue from a dramatic increase in the publication of epics in the early nineteenth-century. At their most innovative, Romantic epics provoked questions about the construction of ideological meaning and historical memory, and they centralized women's experiences in entirely new ways to reflect on defeat, loss, and inevitable transition. For the first time the epic became an attractive genre for ambitious women poets. The book offers a timely response to recent groundbreaking scholarship on nineteenth-century epic by Herbert Tucker and Simon Dentith, and should be of interest to Romanticists and scholars of 18th- and 19th-century literature and history, gender and genre, and women's studies.

Eternity in British Romantic Poetry

Author : Madeleine Callaghan
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781800855625

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Eternity in British Romantic Poetry by Madeleine Callaghan Pdf

Eternity in British Romantic Poetry explores the representation of the relationship between eternity and the mortal world in the poetry of the period. It offers an original approach to Romanticism that demonstrates, against the grain, the dominant intellectual preoccupation of the era: the relationship between the mortal and the eternal. The project's scope is two-fold: firstly, it analyses the prevalence and range of images of eternity (from apocalypse and afterlife to transcendence) in Romantic poetry; secondly, it opens up a new and more nuanced focus on how Romantic poets imagined and interacted with the idea of eternity. Every poet featured in the book seeks and finds their uniqueness in their apprehension of eternity. From Blake’s assertion of the Eternal Now to Keats’s defiance of eternity, Wordsworth’s ‘two consciousnesses’ versus Coleridge’s capacious poetry, Byron’s swithering between versions of eternity compared to Shelleyan yearning, and Hemans’s superlative account of everlasting female suffering, each poet finds new versions of eternity to explore or reject. This monograph sets out a paradigm-shifting approach to the aesthetic and philosophical power of eternity in Romantic poetry.

Women’s Economic Thought in the Romantic Age

Author : Joanna Rostek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429665318

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Women’s Economic Thought in the Romantic Age by Joanna Rostek Pdf

This book examines the writings of seven English women economists from the period 1735–1811. It reveals that contrary to what standard accounts of the history of economic thought suggest, eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century women intellectuals were undertaking incisive and gender-sensitive analyses of the economy. Women’s Economic Thought in the Romantic Age argues that established notions of what constitutes economic enquiry, topics, and genres of writing have for centuries marginalised the perspectives and experiences of women and obscured the knowledge they recorded in novels, memoirs, or pamphlets. This has led to an underrepresentation of women in the canon of economic theory. Using insights from literary studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and feminist economics, the book develops a transdisciplinary methodology that redresses this imbalance and problematises the distinction between literary and economic texts. In its in-depth readings of selected writings by Sarah Chapone, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Mary Robinson, Priscilla Wakefield, Mary Ann Radcliffe, and Jane Austen, this book uncovers the originality and topicality of their insights on the economics of marriage, women and paid work, and moral economics. Combining historical analysis with conceptual revision, Women’s Economic Thought in the Romantic Age retrieves women’s overlooked intellectual contributions and radically breaks down the barriers between literature and economics. It will be of interest to researchers and students from across the humanities and social sciences, in particular the history of economic thought, English literary and cultural studies, gender studies, economics, eighteenth-century and Romantic studies, social history, and the history of ideas.

Slavery and the Romantic Imagination

Author : Debbie Lee
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812202588

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Slavery and the Romantic Imagination by Debbie Lee Pdf

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title The Romantic movement had profound social implications for nineteenth-century British culture. Among the most significant, Debbie Lee contends, was the change it wrought to insular Britons' ability to distance themselves from the brutalities of chattel slavery. In the broadest sense, she asks what the relationship is between the artist and the most hideous crimes of his or her era. In dealing with the Romantic period, this question becomes more specific: what is the relationship between the nation's greatest writers and the epic violence of slavery? In answer, Slavery and the Romantic Imagination provides a fully historicized and theorized account of the intimate relationship between slavery, African exploration, "the Romantic imagination," and the literary works produced by this conjunction. Though the topics of race, slavery, exploration, and empire have come to shape literary criticism and cultural studies over the past two decades, slavery has, surprisingly, not been widely examined in the most iconic literary texts of nineteenth-century Britain, even though emancipation efforts coincide almost exactly with the Romantic movement. This study opens up new perspectives on Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, Keats, and Mary Prince by setting their works in the context of political writings, antislavery literature, medicinal tracts, travel writings, cartography, ethnographic treatises, parliamentary records, philosophical papers, and iconography.

Jane Austen in Context

Author : Janet M. Todd,Janet Todd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521826446

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Jane Austen in Context by Janet M. Todd,Janet Todd Pdf

A lively illustrated collection of short essays on a wide range of aspects of Austen's life, work and times.

The Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers

Author : Ann R. Hawkins,Catherine S. Blackwell,E. Leigh Bonds
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317041740

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The Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers by Ann R. Hawkins,Catherine S. Blackwell,E. Leigh Bonds Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers overviews critical reception for Romantic women writers from their earliest periodical reviews through the most current scholarship and directs users to avenues of future research. It is divided into two parts.The first section offers topical discussions on the status of provincial poets, on women’s engagement in children’s literature, the relation of women writers to their religious backgrounds, the historical backgrounds to women’s orientalism, and their engagement in debates on slavery and abolition.The second part surveys the life and careers of individual women – some 47 in all with sections for biography, biographical resources, works, modern editions, archival holdings, critical reception, and avenues for further research. The final sections of each essay offer further guidance for researchers, including “Signatures” under which the author published, and a “List of Works” accompanied, whenever possible, with contemporary prices and publishing formats. To facilitate research, a robust “Works Cited” includes all texts mentioned or quoted in the essay.

Borderwork

Author : Margaret R. Higonnet
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501723025

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Borderwork by Margaret R. Higonnet Pdf

The first book to assess the impact of feminist criticism on comparative literature, Borderwork recharts the intellectual and institutional boundaries on that discipline. The seventeen essays collected here, most published for the first time, together call for the contextualization of the study of comparative literature within the areas of discourse, culture, ideology, race, and gender. Contributors: Bella Brodzki, VèVè A. Clark, Chris Cullens, Greta Gaard, Sabine Gölz, Sarah Webster Goodwin, Margaret R. Higonnet, Marianne Hirsch, Susan Sniader Lanser, Françoise Lionnet, Fedwa Malti-Douglas, Lore Metzger, Nancy K. Miller, Obioma Nnaemakea, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Anca Vlasopolos.