Description
" . . . provocative insights." -Nineteenth-Century Literature
". . . a series of well researched and persuasive essays examining what has been traditionally excluded from the Romantic literary canon: the feminine, the domestic, the local, collective, sentimental and novelistic." -Women's Studies Network (UK) Association Newsletter
". . . a contribution of real quality to ongoing debates." -British Journal for 18th Century Studies
The essays in this collection question romanticism's suppression of the feminine, the material, and the collective, and its opposition to readings centering on these concerns.
A polemical anthology of criticism that seeks to redraw the boundaries of the study of romanticism.
About the Author
MARY A. FAVRET teaches English and Women's Studies at Indiana University and is author of Romantic Correspondence: Women, Politics and the Fiction of Letters. NICOLA J. WATSON teaches English at Northwestern University and is author of Revolution and the Form of the Novel 1790-1825: Intercepted Letters, Interrupted Seductions.
Reviews
" ... provocative insights." --Nineteenth-Century Literature "... a series of well researched and persuasive essays examining what has been traditionally excluded from the Romantic literary canon: the feminine, the domestic, the local, collective, sentimental and novelistic." --Women's Studies Network (UK) Association Newsletter "... a contribution of real quality to ongoing debates." --British Journal for 18th Century Studies
Book Information
ISBN 9780253208538
Author Mary A. Favret
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Indiana University Press
Publisher Indiana University Press
Weight(grams) 426g
