Romanticism and gender
By: edited by Anne Janowitz.
Contributors: Janowitz, Anne F.
Series: Essays and studies -- 1998; Essays and studies (London, England : 1950) -- v.51
Publisher: D.S. Brewer
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Romanticism -- United States
Description: Focusing on the period from 1770 to 1830, this collection uses recent thinking on women in the Romantic period, in both Western Europe and North America, to define an agenda which will shape studies in this area into the next century.

Investigating issues of class and gender, imperialism and gender identity, and gender and genre, the essays range widely over women and women's affairs during the period, and include pieces on such important writers as Emily Dickinson, Letitia Landon, and Anna Letitia Barbauld. As a whole, the volume raises questions about gendered Romanticism in America, about the surge of Romantic poetics in mid-century, and about the appropriation of gendered Romanticism by fin-de-siecle writers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Feminine Romanticism, masculine history, and the founding of the modern liberal state -- Gary Kelly; title: Flogging: the anti-slavery movement writes pornography -- Mary A. Favret; title: Barbauld's domestic economy -- Josephine McDonagh; title: Commodities among themselves: reading/desire in early women's magazines -- Sonia Hofkosh; title: Letitia Landon: public fantasy and the private sphere -- Emma Francis; title: Emily Dickinson and the Romantic comparative -- Daria Donnelly; title: 'Precious allusions': female muses and authorising writing -- Bridget Bennett; title: The 'no-trump bid' on Romanticism and gender-- Ira Livingston.