British Women Writers and the Profession of Literary Criticism, 1789-1832

2004. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-4039-3626-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 225 Seiten, Format (B × H): 137 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print

This book examines professional literary criticism by Romantic-era British women to reveal that, while developing a conscious professionalism, women literary critics helped to shape the aesthetic models that defined Romantic-era literary values and made the British literary heritage a source of national pride. Women critics understood the contested nature of aesthetics and the public implications of aesthetic values on questions such as morality, both public and private, the nation's cultural heritage, even the essential qualities of Britishness itself.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Waters, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: "FORMS SCIENTIFIC AND ESTABLISHED" - THE CRITICAL PREFACE, THE CANON, AND THE WOMAN CRITIC The British Common Reader: Critical Prefaces by Anna Letitia Barbauld Renouncing the Forms: The Case of Elizabeth Inchbald PART II: "FEARFUL ASCENDENCY" - WOMEN PERIODICAL LITERARY REVIEWERS "The first of a new genus-": Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, and The Analytical Review Periodicals and Middle-Class Dissent: Anna Letitia Barbauld and Elizabeth Moody at the Monthly Review The Next Generation: Harriet Martineau's Literary Reviews for the Monthly Repository Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

MARY A. WATERS is Assistant Professor at Wichita State University, Kansas, USA. Her previous publications include articles in and .