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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.
Editions of The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781107016682
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781107602557
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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.
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What is The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period about?
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.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period?
Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Literature: history and criticism > Literary studies: general
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Who is/are the Author/s of the book The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period?
Devoney Looser
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The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781107016682) and paperback(ISBN 9781107602557)