Women writers and the English nation in the 1790s : romantic belongings / Angela Keane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keane, Angela, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 44.

Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 44

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

Women and literature--England--History--18th century.

Women and literature.

Romanticism--England--History--18th century.

Romanticism.

Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Politics and literature.

Nationalism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 200 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Women Writers & the English Nation in the 1790s

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Angela Keane addresses the work of five women writers of the 1790s and its problematic relationship with the canon of Romantic literature. Refining arguments that women's writing has been overlooked, Keane examines the more complex underpinnings and exclusionary effects of the English national literary tradition. The book explores the negotiations of literate, middle-class women such as Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams and Ann Radcliffe with emergent ideas of national literary representation. As women were cast into the feminine, maternal role in Romantic national discourse, women like these who defined themselves in other terms found themselves exiled - sometimes literally - from the nation. These wandering women did not rest easily in the family-romance of Romantic nationalism nor could they be reconciled with the models of literary authorship that emerged in the 1790s.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Romantic belongings

2. Domesticating the sublime: Ann Radcliffe and Gothic dissent

3. Forgotten sentiments: Helen Maria Williams's 'Letters from France'

4. Exiles and emigres: the wanderings of Charlotte Smith

5. Mary Wollstonecraft and the national body

6. Patrician, populist and patriot: Hannah More's counter-revolutionary nationalism.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-194) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-11987-1

0-511-11849-X

0-511-04992-7

0-511-31049-8

0-521-02240-1

0-511-48432-1

0-511-15113-6

1-280-15472-1

OCLC:

475915618