Romantic women writers, revolution, and prophecy rebellious daughters, 1786-1826
Title:
Romantic women writers, revolution, and prophecy rebellious daughters, 1786-1826
Author:
Smith, Orianne, 1963-
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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x, 278 p.
Series:
Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 98
Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 98.
Contents:
Introduction: Reading and writing the end of the world -- Verbal magic: an etymology of female enthusiasm -- The second coming of Hester Lynch Piozzi -- I, being the representative of liberty: Helen Maria Williams and the utopian performative -- The passion of the gothic heroine: Ann Radcliffe and the origins of narrative -- Anna Barbauld as enlightenment prophet -- Prophesying tragedy: Mary Shelley and the end of Romanticism.
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