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The Female Romantics : Nineteenth-century Women Novelists and Byronism.

The nineteenth century is sometimes seen as a lacuna between two literary periods. In terms of women's writing, however, the era between the death of Mary Wollstonecraft and the 1860s feminist movement produced a coherent body of major works, impelled by an ongoing dialogue between Enlightenmen...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Franklin, Caroline
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Series:Routledge studies in romanticism.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; The Female Romantics; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Aristocratic Romanticism: Women Travellers, Byron, and the Gendering of Italy; 2. 'Thunder Without Rain': Mary Shelley, Byronic Prometheanism, and Romantic Idealism; 3. Cutting The Corsair Down to Size: Lady Caroline Lamb's Ada Reis and George Sand's L'Uscoque; 4. 'The Interest Is Very Strong, Especially for Mr Darcy': Jane Austen, Byron, and Romantic Love; 5. 'My Voice Shall with Thy Future Visions Blend': Byron's Daughters, Lady Byron, and Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
  • 6. 'Happiness Is Not a Potato': Byron, Belgium, and the Romantic Feminism of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre andVillette7. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Romantic Racism and Her Pathology of Byronic Masculinity; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index