Women in Romanticism: Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley

by Meena Alexander

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What did it mean to write as a woman in the Romantic era? How did women writers test and refashion the claims or the grand self, the central 'I, ' we typically see in Romanticism? In this powerful and original study Meena Alexander examines the work of three women: Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97) the radical feminist who typically thought of life as 'warfare' and revolted against the social condition of women; Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) who lived...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:038920885X

ISBN13:9780389208853

Release Date:December 1989

Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Length:180 Pages

Weight:0.50 lbs.

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Criticism & Theory English Literature Gothic & Romantic History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods Women Writers Women's Studies

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