Romanticism: a Feminist Introduction
Published on 9. May 1998
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-0-631-19894-9 (ISBN)
Description
Elizabeth Fay's original and lively book introduces the student to the issues most important for feminist analyses of Romantic literature. It begins with an account of key positions for mainstream and feminist scholarship in Romantic studies. Then, focusing on the issue of the canon, as raised for example by a revisory anthology such as Duncan Wu's volume in the "Blackwell Anthology" series, it shows how feminist analyses can be brought to bear, radically to alter the way we read traditional canonical works. A wide variety of feminist strategies are applied to key texts, providing students with historical contexts and critical paradigms for application and development in their own work. Fay's book shows just why we should use feminist theory and makes clear how startling the consequences of this are for Romantic literature as a whole.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
621 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-19894-9 (9780631198949)
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Content
List of Illustrations.List of Women Writers Discussed.Part I: A Feminist Approach to Romantic Studies and the Case of Austen:1. Standard Definitions and Revisions.2. The Historical Period.3. Feminist Theory and Romantic Studies.4. Jane Austen, a Case Study.Part II: Women and Politics: Writing Revolution:5. Letters and the Maternal: Political Metaphors.6. Revolution as a Frame of Mind.7. Revolutionary Writing.8. Maternal Nationalism and Children's Literature.Part III: Women and the Gothic: Literature as Home Politics:9. Defining the Gothic.10. The Gothic as Domestic: Social Critique Gothics.11. Psychological Drama Gothics.12. The Romance of Real Life and the Radical Critique.Part IV: Women and Thought: Intellectual Critique:13. The Bluestocking Circle in London.14. Dissent and the Rights of the Home.15. Women and History.16. Literary Criticism as Art.17. Intellectuality and the Years of Reaction.Part V: Women and Identity: Visuality in Romantic Texts:18. Seeing and Seen: The Writer and the Proper Lady.19. Display and the Specular Heroine.20. Tableaux Vivants, Theatrics and Burney's The Wanderer. 21. Conclusion.Bibliography.List of Illustrations.List of Women Writers Discussed.