Romantic Women Poets, 1788-1848

Romantic Women Poets, 1788-1848

Author: Andrew Ashfield

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780719052934

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In this new volume, Andrew Ashfield illustrates how women extended the horizons of Romanticism by their insistent engagement with social issues such as slavery, child labor and women workers. His previous volume, "Romantic Women Poets 1770-1838," explored how women poets made important contributions to major areas of Romanticism such as landscape and seascape. Together these two volumes add new dimensions to the study of Romanticism by showing how the solitary meditation by the sea developed concurrently with major social concerns. Ashfield exposes a much more complicated relationship between the self and society than has previously prevailed in our assessments of Romanticism.


Romantic Drama

Romantic Drama

Author: Frederick Burwick

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-02-19

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1139476998

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Drama in the Romantic period underwent radical changes affecting theatre performance, acting, and audience. Theatres were rebuilt and expanded to accommodate larger audiences, and consequently acting styles and the plays themselves evolved to meet the expectations of the new audiences. This book examines manifestations of change in acting, stage design, setting, and the new forms of drama. Actors exercised a persistent habit of stepping out of their roles, whether scripted or not. Burwick traces the radical shifts in acting style from Garrick to Kemble and Siddons, and to Kean and Macready, adding a new dimension to understanding the shift in cultural sensibility from early to later Romantic literature. Eye-witness accounts by theatre-goers and critics attending plays at the major playhouses of London, the provinces, and on the Continent are provided, allowing readers to identify with the experience of being in the theatre during this tumultuous period.


British Women Poets and the Romantic Writing Community

British Women Poets and the Romantic Writing Community

Author: Stephen C. Behrendt

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2009-02-02

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 0801895081

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Approaching the work of Romantic-era British women poets through the lenses of public radicalism, war, and poetic form. This compelling study recovers the lost lives and poems of British women poets of the Romantic era. Stephen C. Behrendt reveals the range and diversity of their writings, offering new perspectives on the work of dozens of women whose poetry has long been ignored or marginalized in traditional literary history. British Romanticism was once thought of as a cultural movement defined by a small group of male poets. This book grants women poets their proper place in the literary tradition of the time. In an approach ripe for classroom teaching, Behrendt first reviews the subject thematically, exploring the ways in which the poems addressed both public concerns and private experiences. He next examines the use of particular genres, including the sonnet and various other long and short forms. In the concluding chapters, Behrendt explores the impact of national identity, providing the first extensive study of Romantic-era poetry by women from Scotland and Ireland. In recovering the lives and work of these women, Behrendt reveals their active participation within the rich cultural community of writers and readers throughout the British Isles. This study will be a key resource for scholars, teachers, and students in British literary studies, women’s studies, and cultural history.


Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution

Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution

Author: Deborah Kennedy

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780838755112

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Eventually settling in Paris with her mother and two sisters, Williams hosted a Parisian salon that was frequented by many of Europe's most important politicians, artists, writers, and thinkers, including J. P. Brissot, Madame Roland, Mary Wollstonecraft, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, and Alexander von Humboldt.".


Bluestockings

Bluestockings

Author: E. Eger

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-01-20

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0230250505

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This studyargues that female networks of conversation, correspondenceand patronage formed the foundation for women's work in the 'higher' realms of Shakespeare criticism and poetry. Eger traces the transition between Enlightenment and Romantic culture, arguing for the relevance of rational argument in the history of women's writing.


Crisis in Representation

Crisis in Representation

Author: Steven Blakemore

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780838637142

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For Paine, Wollstonecraft, and Williams, the crisis in representation was actually a variety of representational crises. That they returned to the paradigms of the past to resolve the crisis signified that they were rewriting the Revolution within the textual space of the tradition they had originally opposed.


The Noble Savage

The Noble Savage

Author: Hoxie Neale Fairchild

Publisher: New York Columbia University Press 1928.

Published: 1928

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13:

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Studies Romantic Nationalism through the treatment of the noble savage in works by authors such as, Wordsworth, Southey, Byron, Rogers and Moore.


Conquest and Reclamation in the Transatlantic Imagination

Conquest and Reclamation in the Transatlantic Imagination

Author: Luz Elena Ramirez

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-06-30

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1000843645

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This book examines the imperial spectacles and startling reversals of fortune related in William H. Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843) and History of the Conquest of Peru (1847), and investigates how these accounts inspired fictional adaptations by George A. Henty, H. Rider Haggard, and George Griffith. The revision of history in the Amerindian adventure both entertained young transatlantic audiences and was a vehicle to attract tourism and investment in countries such as Mexico and Peru. Henty, Haggard, and Griffith, moreover, used their tales of adventure as a platform to impart British values to their readers. Such values compel the characters and narrators of the novels discussed to act as cultural mediators, to acquire indigenous languages and adopt native ways of being, and, in several of the romance adventures under consideration, to marry Mexican or Incan noblewomen. Part I, Conquest, examines George Henty’s By Right of Conquest: Or, With Cortez in Mexico (1891), H. Rider Haggard’s Montezuma’s Daughter (1893), and George Griffith’s Virgin of the Sun: A Tale of the Conquest of Peru (1898). Part II, Reclamation, argues that English re-writings of history work to eclipse the Spanish in Haggard’s Virgin the Sun (1922), Henty’s Treasure of the Incas (1902) and Griffith’s Romance of Golden Star (1897).