Book Description
Examines the full spectrum of women's participation in the social, economic, religious, and poetic debates surrounding the French Revolution.
Author : Adriana Craciun
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 35,76 MB
Release : 2001-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791449691
Examines the full spectrum of women's participation in the social, economic, religious, and poetic debates surrounding the French Revolution.
Author : A. Craciun
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 2005-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0230501885
British Women Writers and the French Revolution provides an overview of a wide range of British women's writings on the French Revolution, from writers sympathetic to the Revolution like Mary Robinson, Helen Maria Williams, and Charlotte Smith, to anti-revolutionary writers like Hannah More and Jane West. Based on new research in French and British archives and libraries, the book uncovers little-known writings by British women, and argues that these writers developed a distinct antinationalism, in some cases even a feminist cosmopolitanism, in their responses to the European revolutionary crisis.
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Page : 395 pages
File Size : 25,92 MB
Release : 2001
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Author : Lisa Ann Pisani
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 33,91 MB
Release : 1998
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Author : Susan Staves
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 22,23 MB
Release : 2006-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139458582
Drawing on three decades of feminist scholarship bent on rediscovering lost and abandoned women writers, Susan Staves provides a comprehensive history of women's writing in Britain from the Restoration to the French Revolution. This major work of criticism also offers fresh insights about women's writing in all literary forms, not only fiction, but also poetry, drama, memoir, autobiography, biography, history, essay, translation and the familiar letter. Authors celebrated in their own time and who have been neglected, and those who have been revalued and studied, are given equal attention. The book's organisation by chronology and its attention to history challenge the way we periodise literary history. Each chapter includes a list of key works written in the period covered, as well as a narrative and critical assessment of the works. This magisterial work includes a comprehensive bibliography and list of prevalent editions of the authors discussed.
Author : Collette H. Winn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 47,98 MB
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 113482341X
This extensive collection of English-language essays examines the many strategies of resistance to male domination that women in France from the 16th through the 18th centuries utilized in their lives and their writings.
Author : A. D. Cousins
Publisher : Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,70 MB
Release : 2011
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9781433116391
This book is a major reassessment of the French Revolution's impact on the English novel of the Romantic period. Focusing particularly - but by no means exclusively - on women writers of the time, it explores the enthusiasm, wariness, or hostility with which the Revolution was interpreted and represented for then-contemporary readers. A team of international scholars study how English Romantic novelists sought to guide the British response to an event that seemed likely to turn the world upside down.
Author : Kelvin Everest
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 27,56 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN :
Essays originally generated by the academic conferences and events organized throughout Britain in 1989 to mark the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution investigate the British literary responses to the monumental upheaval, and examine as well certain critical problems regarding the relationship between texts, history, and theory. Distributed by Taylor and Francis. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Stephanie M. Hilger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 18,52 MB
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 161149530X
In the wake of the French Revolution, history was no longer imagined as a cyclical process in which the succession of ruling dynasties was as predictable as the change in the seasons. Contemporaries wrestled with the meaning of this historical rupture, which represented both the progress of the Enlightenment and the darkness of the Terreur. French authors discussed the political events in their country, but they were not the only ones to do so. As the effects of the French Revolution became more palpable across the border, German authors pondered their implications in newspapers, political pamphlets, and historiographical treatises. German women also participated in these debates, but they often embedded their political commentary in literary texts because they were discouraged, and sometimes even barred, from publishing in explicitly political and public venues. As such, literature, in the sense of belles lettres, had a compensatory function for women: it allowed them to engage in political discussion without explicitly encroaching on certain domains that were perceived as a male preserve. As women writers explored the uses of literature for political commentary they adapted major literary genres in order to consolidate their position in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literary sphere. Those genres included domestic fiction, the historical novel, historical tragedy, autobiography, the Robinsonade,and the Bildungsroman. Women writers challenged the images of women traditionally portrayed in these genres: dutiful daughter, submissive wife, caring mother, tantalizing mistress, angelic figure, and passive victim. Gender and Genre discusses six women writers who replaced these traditional female types with women warriors and emigrants as protagonists in texts published between 1795 and 1821: Therese Huber, Caroline de la Motte Fouqué, Christine Westphalen, Regula Engel, Sophie von La Roche, and Henriette Frölich. These authors’ protagonists question traditional images of passive femininity, yet their battered bodies also depict the precarious position of women in general, and women writers in particular, during this period. Because women writers were attacked by their male counterparts who attempted to halt their foray into the literary marketplace, these texts are as much about power dynamics in the German literary establishment as they are about French politics.
Author : Lisa Wood
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 22,97 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780838755273
Brings together British women writers who opposed what they figured as the poison of revolutionary thought, and who used the novel form in their search for a vehicle to carry a counterrevolutionary antidote. Reading Jane West, Hannah More, Elizabeth Hamilton, Mary Brunton, Laetitia Matilda Hawkins, and Jane Porter in relation to each other and to their antirevolutionary contemporaries, this study shows that they developed an alternative feminine (but not feminist) discourse within the broader context of conservative print culture.