A Feminist Introduction to Romanticism E Fay
Elizabeth Faya s invaluable book addresses the student in an immediate and direct manner to provide an unequalled introduction to the issues most important for feminist analyses of Romantic literature.
A Feminist Introduction to Romanticism
A Feminist Introduction to Romanticism
Résumé
Elizabeth Faya s invaluable book addresses the student in an immediate and direct manner to provide an unequalled introduction to the issues most important for feminist analyses of Romantic literature.
A Feminist Introduction to Romanticism Résumé
A Feminist Introduction to Romanticism Avis
Drawing heavily on the many new historical and feminist interrogations of British romantic texts over the last decade, Elizabeth Fay provides a useful overview of the major areas of feminist enquiry into canonical and non--canonical romantic writing. Fay provides several fresh insights into non--canonical texts as well as helpful classifications of the range of womena s writing in the romantic period. Studies in Romanticism
À propos de E Fay
Elizabeth Fay is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She the author of Becoming Wordsworthian: A Performative Aesthetics (1994) and of Eminent Rhetoric (1994).
Sommaire
List of Illustrations. List of Women Writers Discussed. 1 A Feminist Approach to Romantic Studies and the Case of Austen. Standard Definitions and Revisions. The Historical Period. Feminist Theory and Romantic Studies. Jane Austen, a Case Study. 2 Women and Politics: Writing Revolution. Letters and the Maternal: Political Metaphors. Revolution as a Frame of Mind. Revolutionary Writing. Maternal Nationalism and Childrena s Literature. 3 Women and the Gothic: Literature as Home Politics. Defining the Gothic. The Gothic as Domestic: Social Critique Gothics. Psychological Drama Gothics. The Romance of Real Life and the Radical Critique. 4 Women and Thought: Intellectual Critique. The Bluestocking Circle in London. Dissent and the Rights of the Home. Women and History. Literary Criticism as Art. Intellectuality and the Years of Reaction. 5 Women and Identity: Visuality in Romantic Texts. Seeing and Seen: The Writer and the Proper Lady. Display and the Specular Heroine. Tableaux Vivants, Theatrics and Burneya s The Wanderer. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.
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GOR004921751
9780631198956
0631198954
A Feminist Introduction to Romanticism E Fay
Occasion - Très bon état
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
1998-09-05
268
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