Author: Orianne Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107027063
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This book challenges our current critical understanding of the relations between gender, genre, and literary authority in this period.
Romantic Women Writers, Revolution, and Prophecy
Author: Orianne Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107027063
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This book challenges our current critical understanding of the relations between gender, genre, and literary authority in this period.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107027063
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This book challenges our current critical understanding of the relations between gender, genre, and literary authority in this period.
Romantic Women Writers, Revolution, and Prophecy
Author: Orianne Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781107334984
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Convinced that the end of the world was at hand, many Romantic women writers assumed the role of the female prophet to sound the alarm before the final curtain fell. Orianne Smith argues that their prophecies were performative acts in which the prophet believed herself to be authorized by God to bring about social or religious transformation through her words. Utilizing a wealth of archival material across a wide range of historical documents, including sermons, prophecies, letters and diaries, Orianne Smith explores the work of prominent women writers - from Hester Piozzi to Ann Radcliffe, fr.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781107334984
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Convinced that the end of the world was at hand, many Romantic women writers assumed the role of the female prophet to sound the alarm before the final curtain fell. Orianne Smith argues that their prophecies were performative acts in which the prophet believed herself to be authorized by God to bring about social or religious transformation through her words. Utilizing a wealth of archival material across a wide range of historical documents, including sermons, prophecies, letters and diaries, Orianne Smith explores the work of prominent women writers - from Hester Piozzi to Ann Radcliffe, fr.
Romantic Women Writers, Revolution, and Prophecy
Author: Orianne Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107328543
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Convinced that the end of the world was at hand, many Romantic women writers assumed the role of the female prophet to sound the alarm before the final curtain fell. Orianne Smith argues that their prophecies were performative acts in which the prophet believed herself to be authorized by God to bring about social or religious transformation through her words. Utilizing a wealth of archival material across a wide range of historical documents, including sermons, prophecies, letters and diaries, Orianne Smith explores the work of prominent women writers - from Hester Piozzi to Ann Radcliffe, from Helen Maria Williams to Anna Barbauld and Mary Shelley - through the lens of their prophetic influence. As this book demonstrates, Romantic women writers not only thought in millenarian terms, but they did so in a way that significantly alters our current critical view of the relations between gender, genre, and literary authority in this period.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107328543
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Convinced that the end of the world was at hand, many Romantic women writers assumed the role of the female prophet to sound the alarm before the final curtain fell. Orianne Smith argues that their prophecies were performative acts in which the prophet believed herself to be authorized by God to bring about social or religious transformation through her words. Utilizing a wealth of archival material across a wide range of historical documents, including sermons, prophecies, letters and diaries, Orianne Smith explores the work of prominent women writers - from Hester Piozzi to Ann Radcliffe, from Helen Maria Williams to Anna Barbauld and Mary Shelley - through the lens of their prophetic influence. As this book demonstrates, Romantic women writers not only thought in millenarian terms, but they did so in a way that significantly alters our current critical view of the relations between gender, genre, and literary authority in this period.
The Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers
Author: Ann R. Hawkins
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317041747
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
The Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers overviews critical reception for Romantic women writers from their earliest periodical reviews through the most current scholarship and directs users to avenues of future research. It is divided into two parts.The first section offers topical discussions on the status of provincial poets, on women’s engagement in children’s literature, the relation of women writers to their religious backgrounds, the historical backgrounds to women’s orientalism, and their engagement in debates on slavery and abolition.The second part surveys the life and careers of individual women – some 47 in all with sections for biography, biographical resources, works, modern editions, archival holdings, critical reception, and avenues for further research. The final sections of each essay offer further guidance for researchers, including “Signatures” under which the author published, and a “List of Works” accompanied, whenever possible, with contemporary prices and publishing formats. To facilitate research, a robust “Works Cited” includes all texts mentioned or quoted in the essay.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317041747
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
The Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers overviews critical reception for Romantic women writers from their earliest periodical reviews through the most current scholarship and directs users to avenues of future research. It is divided into two parts.The first section offers topical discussions on the status of provincial poets, on women’s engagement in children’s literature, the relation of women writers to their religious backgrounds, the historical backgrounds to women’s orientalism, and their engagement in debates on slavery and abolition.The second part surveys the life and careers of individual women – some 47 in all with sections for biography, biographical resources, works, modern editions, archival holdings, critical reception, and avenues for further research. The final sections of each essay offer further guidance for researchers, including “Signatures” under which the author published, and a “List of Works” accompanied, whenever possible, with contemporary prices and publishing formats. To facilitate research, a robust “Works Cited” includes all texts mentioned or quoted in the essay.
Romanticism in the Shadow of War
Author: Jeffrey N. Cox
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316061914
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Jeffrey N. Cox reconsiders the history of British Romanticism, seeing the work of Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats responding not only to the 'first generation' Romantics led by Wordsworth, but more directly to the cultural innovations of the Napoleonic War years. Recreating in depth three moments of political crisis and cultural creativity - the Peace of Amiens, the Regency Crisis, and Napoleon's first abdication - Cox shows how 'second generation' Romanticism drew on cultural 'border raids', seeking a global culture at a time of global war. This book explores how the introduction on the London stage of melodrama in 1803 shaped Romantic drama, how Barbauld's prophetic satire Eighteen Hundred and Eleven prepares for the work of the Shelleys, and how Hunt's controversial Story of Rimini showed younger writers how to draw on the Italian cultural archive. Responding to world war, these writers sought to embrace a radically new vision of the world.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316061914
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Jeffrey N. Cox reconsiders the history of British Romanticism, seeing the work of Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats responding not only to the 'first generation' Romantics led by Wordsworth, but more directly to the cultural innovations of the Napoleonic War years. Recreating in depth three moments of political crisis and cultural creativity - the Peace of Amiens, the Regency Crisis, and Napoleon's first abdication - Cox shows how 'second generation' Romanticism drew on cultural 'border raids', seeking a global culture at a time of global war. This book explores how the introduction on the London stage of melodrama in 1803 shaped Romantic drama, how Barbauld's prophetic satire Eighteen Hundred and Eleven prepares for the work of the Shelleys, and how Hunt's controversial Story of Rimini showed younger writers how to draw on the Italian cultural archive. Responding to world war, these writers sought to embrace a radically new vision of the world.
Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry
Author: Michael Gamer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107158850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Michael Gamer explodes the myth of the unworldly Romantic poet, showing writers' interest in public presence, and profit and loss.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107158850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Michael Gamer explodes the myth of the unworldly Romantic poet, showing writers' interest in public presence, and profit and loss.
The Poetics of Decline in British Romanticism
Author: Jonathan Sachs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108349870
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Anxieties about decline were a prominent feature of British public discourse in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. These anxieties were borne out repeatedly in books and periodicals, pamphlets and poems. Tracing the reciprocal development of Romantic-era Britain's rapidly expanding literary and market cultures through the lens of decline, Jonathan Sachs offers a fresh way of understanding British Romanticism. The book focuses on three aspects of literary experience - questions of value, the fascination with ruins, and the representation of slow time - to explore how shifting conceptions of progress and change inform a post-enlightenment sense of cultural decline. Combining close readings of Romantic literary texts with an examination of works from political economy, historical writing, classical studies, and media history the book reveals for the first time how anxieties about decline impacted literary form and shaped Romantic debates about poetry and the meaning of literature.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108349870
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Anxieties about decline were a prominent feature of British public discourse in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. These anxieties were borne out repeatedly in books and periodicals, pamphlets and poems. Tracing the reciprocal development of Romantic-era Britain's rapidly expanding literary and market cultures through the lens of decline, Jonathan Sachs offers a fresh way of understanding British Romanticism. The book focuses on three aspects of literary experience - questions of value, the fascination with ruins, and the representation of slow time - to explore how shifting conceptions of progress and change inform a post-enlightenment sense of cultural decline. Combining close readings of Romantic literary texts with an examination of works from political economy, historical writing, classical studies, and media history the book reveals for the first time how anxieties about decline impacted literary form and shaped Romantic debates about poetry and the meaning of literature.
Sound and Sense in British Romanticism
Author: James Grande
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009277863
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
This unparalleled exploration reveals how understandings of sound shifted and multiplied in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Drawing on literary studies, musicology and history, and interrogating how writers of this period thought with and through sound, this book opens up a new chapter in the history of the senses.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009277863
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
This unparalleled exploration reveals how understandings of sound shifted and multiplied in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Drawing on literary studies, musicology and history, and interrogating how writers of this period thought with and through sound, this book opens up a new chapter in the history of the senses.
Forging Romantic China
Author: Peter J. Kitson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107045614
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
The first major study to focus on British and Chinese cultural relations in the Romantic period.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107045614
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
The first major study to focus on British and Chinese cultural relations in the Romantic period.
Romantic Epics and the Mission of Empire
Author: Matthew Leporati
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009285181
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
A lively account of the Romantic-era revival of epic literature set against the background of British imperialism's evangelical turn.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009285181
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
A lively account of the Romantic-era revival of epic literature set against the background of British imperialism's evangelical turn.