Genius Envy Women Shaping French Poetic History, 1801–1900 / Adrianna M. Paliyenko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paliyenko, Adrianna M., 1956- author.

Contributor:

Knowledge Unlatched, funder.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Genius.

Women poets, French--History--19th century.

Women poets, French.

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

French poetry.

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

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA Penn State University Press 2016

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English; poetry selections in French.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

"Analyzes the reception of nineteenth-century French women poets, including Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Amable Tastu, Élisa Mercoeur, Melanie Waldor, Louise Colet, Anaïs Segalas, Malvina Blanchecotte, Louise Ackermann, and Marie Krysinska, to recover the diversity of women's voices. Places their contributions within the medical and literary debate about the sex of genius"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Un/sexing genius

Literary reception and its discontents

The other history of French poetry, 1801-1900

Anaïs Segalas on race, gender, and "la mission civilisatrice"

Work, genius, and the in-between in Malvina Blanchecotte

The poetic edges of dualism in Louisa Siefert

Louise Ackermann's turn to science

Marie Krysinska on eve, evolution, and the property of genius.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-326) and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version (hardback):

ISBN:

9780271079172

0271079177

9780271079196

0271079193

OCLC:

1080551522

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access