Elizabeth Fay's Invaluable Book Addresses The Reader In An Immediate And Direct Manner To Provide An Unequaled Introduction To The Issues Most Important For Feminist Analyses Of Romantic Literature. In Her Opening Chapter, Fay Offers Detailed Definitions And A Historicized Grounding That Gives A Thorough Account Of Feminist Theory's Involvement In Romantic Studies And Provides A Rigorous Methodology For Students To Follow, Concluding With A Highly Instructive Case Study On Jane Austen. Subsequent Chapters Deal With Women And Revolutionary Politics, The Gothic Genre And Domestic Politics, Women And Thought, And Women And Identity, Which Covers Visuality In Romantic Texts. Further Reading Is Listed At The End Of Each Chapter. The Book Includes Key Illustrations And A Comprehensive Bibliography. A Feminist Approach To Romantic Studies And The Case Of Austen. Standard Definitions And Revisions -- The Historical Period -- Feminist Theory And Romantic Studies -- Jane Austen: A Case Study. -- Women And Politics: Writing Revolution. Letters And The Maternal: Political Metaphors -- Revolution As A Frame Of Mind -- Revolutionary Writing -- Maternal Nationalism And Children's Literature. -- Women And The Gothic: Literature As Home Politics. Defining The Gothic -- The Gothic As Domestic: Social Critique Gothics. Psychological Drama Gothics -- The Romance Of Real Life And Radical Critique. -- Women And Thought: Intellectual Critique. The Bluestocking Circle In London -- Dissent And The Rights Of The Home -- Women And History -- Literary Criticism As Art -- Intellectuality And The Years Of Reaction. -- Women And Identity: Visuality In Romantic Texts. Seeing And Seen: The Writer And The Proper Lady -- Display And The Specular Heroine -- Tableaux Vivants, Theatrics And Burney's The Wanderer. Elizabeth A. Fay. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 236-245) And Index.

Romanticism: a feminist introduction

Fay, Elizabeth A., 1957-

Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)

Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

1. publ, Malden, Mass, 1998

Oxford, 1998

1, PS, 1991

1, 2008

Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-245) and index.

This original and lively book introduces the issues most important for feminist analyses of Romantic literature. It begins with an account of key positions for mainstream and feminist scholarship in Romantic studies. Then, focusing on the issue of the canon, it shows how feminist analyses can be brought to bear, to radically alter the way we read traditional canonical works.A Feminist Introduction to Romanticism applies a wide variety of feminist strategies to key texts, providing historical contexts and critical paradigms for application and development. This essential work shows just why we should use feminist theory and makes clear how startling its consequences are for Romantic literature as a whole.

Elizabeth Fay's invaluable book addresses the student in an immediate and direct manner to provide an unequalled introduction to the issues most important for feminist analyses of Romantic literature.

viii, 256 p. : 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-245) and index

2023-06-28