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Women writers and the English nation in the 1790s : romantic belongings /
"Angela Keane addresses the work of five women writers of the 1790s and its problematic relationship with the canon of Romantic literature. Refining arguments that women's writing has been overlooked, Keane examines the more complex underpinnings and exclusionary effects of the English nat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in Romanticism ;
44. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Angela Keane addresses the work of five women writers of the 1790s and its problematic relationship with the canon of Romantic literature. Refining arguments that women's writing has been overlooked, Keane examines the more complex underpinnings and exclusionary effects of the English national literary tradition. The book explores the negotiations of literate, middle-class women such as Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams and Ann Radcliffe with emergent ideas of national literary representation. As women were cast into the feminine, maternal role in Romantic national discourse, women like these who defined themselves in other terms found themselves exiled - sometimes literally - from the nation |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 200 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-194) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511010818 9780511010811 0521773423 9780521773423 0511151136 9780511151132 051111849X 9780511118494 9780511484322 0511484321 9780511049927 0511049927 1280154721 9781280154720 1107119871 9781107119871 0511310498 9780511310492 0521022401 9780521022408 |