The romantic poetess : European culture, politics, and gender, 1820-1840 / Patrick H. Vincent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vincent, Patrick H.

Series:

Becoming modern

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.

European poetry.

European poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

Romanticism--Europe.

Romanticism.

European poetry--Women authors.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xxv, 267 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.H. : University of New Hampshire Press ; Hanover : Published by University Press of New England, [2004]

Summary:

An elegant and provocative study of the literary and political effects of the work of romantic poetesses in England, France, and Russia.

Contents:

Suffering heroines: Germaine de Staël's politics of the feminine

Last songs: the romantic poetess and the elegy

First last songs: the public voice of sentiment

Altogether foreign monsters? women and cosmopolitanism in the Romantic Age

A continent of Corinnes: poems on Corinne, Italy, and exile

From salon to annual: the poetess in the age of mechanical reproduction

Burying the poetess: disenchantment poems, death elegies, posthumous reviews, and obituaries.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-254) and index.

ISBN:

1584654309

1584654317

OCLC:

55680094