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Before Victoria : Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era.
Combining literary and cultural history, this richly illustrated volume brings back to life a remarkable, though frequently overlooked, group of women who transformed British culture during the Romantic era and inspired new ways of understanding feminine roles and female sexuality. Often working fro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1. Mary Robinson, Eighteenth-Century Romantic; Chapter 2. Exemplary Women: Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah More, and their Worlds; Chapter 3. Not Quite Good Enough: Three Imperfect Lives; Chapter 4. The Modern Venus, or, Improper Ladies and Others; Chapter 5. Stronger Passions of the Mind: Women in Literature and the Visual Arts; Chapter 6. Rational Dames and Ladies on Horseback: Scientists and Travelers; Chapter 7. The Youngest Romantics; The Pforzheimer Collection and its Female Inhabitants: An Afterword; Notes.