The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period
The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period

Author: Devoney Looser

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-03-12

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1316298310

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The Romantic period saw the first generations of professional women writers flourish in Great Britain. Literary history is only now giving them the attention they deserve, for the quality of their writings and for their popularity in their own time. This collection of new essays by leading scholars explores the challenges and achievements of this fascinating set of women writers, including Jane Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth, and Mary Shelley alongside many lesser-known female authors writing and publishing during this period. Chapters consider major literary genres, including poetry, fiction, drama, travel writing, histories, essays, and political writing, as well as topics such as globalization, colonialism, feminism, economics, families, sexualities, aging, and war. The volume shows how gender intersected with other aspects of identity and with cultural concerns that then shaped the work of authors, critics, and readers.

The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period
The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period

Author: Richard Maxwell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-02-21

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 9781139827911

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While poetry has been the genre most closely associated with the Romantic period, the novel of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has attracted many more readers and students in recent years. Its canon has been widened to include less well known authors alongside Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Maria Edgeworth and Thomas Love Peacock. Over the last generation, especially, a remarkable range of popular works from the period have been re-discovered and reread intensively. This Companion offers an overview of British fiction written between roughly the mid-1760s and the early 1830s and is an ideal guide to the major authors, historical and cultural contexts, and later critical reception. The contributors to this volume represent the most up-to-date directions in scholarship, charting the ways in which the period's social, political and intellectual redefinitions created new fictional subjects, forms and audiences.

Fatal Women of Romanticism
Fatal Women of Romanticism

Author: Adriana Craciun

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-12-12

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1139436333

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Incarnations of fatal women, or femmes fatales, recur throughout the works of women writers in the Romantic period. Adriana Craciun demonstrates how portrayals of femmes fatales or fatal women played an important role in the development of Romantic women's poetic identities and informed their exploration of issues surrounding the body, sexuality and politics. Craciun covers a wide range of writers and genres from the 1790s through the 1830s. She discusses the work of well-known figures including Mary Wollstonecraft, as well as lesser-known writers like Anne Bannerman. By examining women writers' fatal women in historical, political and medical contexts, Craciun uncovers a far-ranging debate on sexual difference. She also engages with current research on the history of the body and sexuality, providing an important historical precedent for modern feminist theory's ongoing dilemma regarding the status of 'woman' as a sex.

The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism
The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism

Author: Stuart Curran

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-07-22

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1139824864

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This new edition of The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism has been fully revised and updated and includes two wholly new essays, one on recent developments in the field, and one on the rapidly expanding publishing industry of this period. It also features a comprehensive chronology and a fully up-to-date guide to further reading. For the past decade and more the Companion has been a much-admired and widely-used account of the phenomenon of British Romanticism that has inspired students to look at Romantic literature from a variety of critical angles and approaches. In this new incarnation, the volume will continue to be a standard guide for students of Romantic literature and its contexts.

The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism
The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism

Author: Nicholas Saul

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-07-09

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 0521848911

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Explains the development of Romantic arts and culture in Germany, with both individual artists and key themes covered in detail.

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Food
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Food

Author: J. Michelle Coghlan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-03-19

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1108427367

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This Companion rethinks food in literature from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to contemporary food blogs, and recovers cookbooks as literary texts.

The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing
The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing

Author: Laura Lunger Knoppers

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Featuring the most frequently taught female writers and texts of the early modern period, this Companion introduces the reader to the range, complexity, historical importance, and aesthetic merit of women's writing in Britain from 1500-1700. Presenting key textual, historical, and methodological information, the volume exemplifies new and diverse approaches to the study of women's writing. The book is clearly divided into three sections, covering: how women learnt to write and how their work was circulated or published; how and what women wrote in the places and spaces in which they lived, worked, and worshipped; and the different kinds of writing women produced, from poetry and fiction to letters, diaries, and political prose. This structure makes the volume readily adaptable to course usage. The Companion is enhanced by an introduction that lays out crucial framework and critical issues, and by chronologies that situate women's writings alongside political and cultural events.