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Fracture feminism : the politics of impossible time in British romanticism / David Sigler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sigler, David, 1977- author.
- Series:
- SUNY Series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminism and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Feminism and literature.
- Romanticism--Great Britain.
- Romanticism.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (322 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York, [2021]
- Summary:
- Shows how feminist writing in British Romanticism developed alternatives to linear time.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Uses of History in Wollstonecraft's Afterlives
- A Dead Feminists' Society, Differently Constituted
- Dead Feminists' Society II: "Ithuriel"
- Dead Feminists' Society III: A Letter to the Women of A Letter to the Women of England
- On the Uses of History in "On the Uses of History"
- Chapter 2 Adoptive Siblings across Oceans of Futurity: Paul and Virginia and The Victim of Prejudice
- The Ocean of Futurity: Parergonal Paul and Virginia
- Literature and the Seeds of Future Enslavement
- Mary Hays: A Vindication of the Rights of the Oedipus Complex
- The Victim of Prejudice/The Children of Oedipus
- Chapter 3 Della Cruscan Time
- The Queer Asynchronies of Mary Robinson's Ainsi va le Monde
- Robinson's Merry Meets Merry's Cowley: The Laurel of Liberty
- The Two Della Cruscas of Two "To Della Crusca"s
- Merry's Polypoetics: An Experiment in Llanguage
- "Ode to Folly"'s Contretempopian Tropes
- Chapter 4 Future Poetry: Clock Time Misses Barbauld, Smith, Richardson, and Hemans
- Barbauld's "Love and Time" and "Washing Day"
- The Hermitage of Beachy Head
- Richardson: The Hospitality of Harvest-Home
- Felicia Hemans, Between Psychosis and Perversion
- Byronic Destinerrance in "A Spirit's Return"
- Chapter 5 Gulzara and The Last Man: Worldwide-izing the Roman à Clef
- The Temporality of Gulzara
- "Hours Passed-Centuries": The Future Orientation of The Last Man
- Learning to Count: My Three Brothers Paul, Lionel Verney, and Me
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438484877
- 1438484879
- OCLC:
- 1262370473
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