Orianne Smith

Romantic Women Writers, Revolution, and Prophecy

Rebellious Daughters, 1786 1826

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Produktbeschreibung

This book challenges our current critical understanding of the relations between gender, genre, and literary authority in this period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9781107027060
• ISBN-10: 1107027063
• Artikelnr.: 36956948

Autorenporträt

Orianne Smith is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her edition of Mary Robinson's Hubert de Sevrac, A Romance of the Eighteenth Century (1796) was published in 2009.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: reading and writing the End of the World
1. Verbal magic: an etymology of female enthusiasm
2. The second coming of Hester Lynch Piozzi
3. 'I, being the representative of liberty': Helen Maria Williams and the Utopian performative
4. The passion of the Gothic heroine: Ann Radcliffe and the origins of narrative
5. Anna Barbauld as Enlightenment prophet
6. Prophesying tragedy: Mary Shelley and the end of Romanticism
Epilogue.