Genius Envy - Women Shaping French Poetic History, 1801–1900

Analyzes the reception of nineteenth-century French women poets, including Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Amable Tastu, Élisa Mercoeur, Mélanie Waldor, Louise Colet, Anaïs Ségalas, Malvina Blanchecotte, Louise Ackermann, and Marie Krysinska, to recover the diversity of women's voices. Places their contributions within the medical and literary debate about the sex of genius.

About the author

Adrianna M. Paliyenko is Charles A. Dana Professor of French at Colby College. Her most recent book, coedited with Joseph Acquisto and Catherine Witt, is Poets as Readers in Nineteenth-Century France.

Summary

Analyzes the reception of nineteenth-century French women poets, including Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Amable Tastu, Élisa Mercœur, Mélanie Waldor, Louise Colet, Anaïs Ségalas, Malvina Blanchecotte, Louise Ackermann, and Marie Krysinska, to recover the diversity of women’s voices. Places their contributions within the medical and literary debate about the sex of genius.

Product details

• Authors: Adrianna M. Paliyenko, Adrianna M. (Colby College) Paliyenko, Paliyenko Adrianna M.
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2017
• EAN: 9780271077093
• ISBN: 978-0-271-07709-3
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 658 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; French, France, Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, POETRY / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, POETRY / European / French, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets