Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustration
  • Acknowledgment
  • Introduction
  • Reading Women's Texts
  • Mary Robinson's Lyrical Tales in Context
  • Becoming an Author: Mary Robinson's Memoirs and the Origins of the Woman Artist's Autobiography
  • "A name more dear": Daughters, Fathers, and Desire in A Simple Story, The False Friend, and Mathilda
  • Romantic Aspirations, Restricted Possibilities: The Novels of Charlotte Smith
  • Gender and the Cultural Matrix
  • Configurations of Feminine Reform: The Woman Writer and the Tradition of Dissent
  • The Way Above the World: Religion and Gender in Welsh and Anglo-Welsh Women's Writing, 1780-1830
  • "Domestic Affections" and "the spear of Minerva": Felicia Hemans and the Dilemma of Gender
  • Lost Needles, Tangled Threads: Stitchery, Domesticity, and the Artistic Enterprise in Barbauld, Edgeworth, Taylor, and Lamb
  • Re-Visioning Romantic Aesthetics
  • Female Botanists and the Poetry of Charlotte Smith
  • Literary History, Romanticism, and Felicia Hemans
  • The Politics of Fancy in the Age of Sensibility
  • The Romantic Scene (s) of Writing
  • English Romantic Women Writers and Theatre Theory: Joanna Baillie's Prefaces to the Plays on the Passions
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index