Romantic Women Writers, Revolution, and Prophecy - Rebellious Daughters, 1786-1826

Informationen zum Autor Orianne Smith is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her edition of Mary Robinson's Hubert de Sevrac, A Romance of the Eighteenth Century (1796) was published in 2009. Klappentext This book challenges our current critical understanding of the relations between gender, genre, and literary authority in this period. Zusammenfassung Convinced that the end of the world was nigh! Romantic women writers assumed the role of the female prophet to sound the alarm before the final curtain fell. Utilizing a wealth of archival material! this book challenges preconceptions of the relations between gender! genre! and literary authority in this period. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: reading and writing the End of the World; 1. Verbal magic: an etymology of female enthusiasm; 2. The second coming of Hester Lynch Piozzi; 3. 'I, being the representative of liberty': Helen Maria Williams and the Utopian performative; 4. The passion of the Gothic heroine: Ann Radcliffe and the origins of narrative; 5. Anna Barbauld as Enlightenment prophet; 6. Prophesying tragedy: Mary Shelley and the end of Romanticism; Epilogue.

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• Authors: Orianne Smith, Orianne (University of Maryland Smith, Smith Orianne
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2015
• EAN: 9781107566736
• ISBN: 978-1-107-56673-6
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism; Cambridge Studies in Romantici; Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: general, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: women, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Gender studies: women and girls