Re-Visioning Romanticism
Subtitle: British Women Writers, 1776-1837
Contributors: Joel Haefner (Editor)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: December 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780812214215
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literary Criticism; Women As Authors (English Literature); Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Women authors; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 19th century; 18th century; English literature; History and criticism
First sentence: Joseph Cottle concludes the first volume of his Early Recollections with the departure of Wordsworth and Coleridge for the continent following his publication of the first volume of their Lyrical Ballads, an event by which he marked his own retirement from an uncertain vocation: I for ever quitted the business of a bookseller, with the earnest hope that the time might never arrive when Bristol possessed not a bookseller, prompt to extend a friendly hand to every man of genius, home-born, or exotic, that might be found within its borders.