701 research outputs found
Review of Placing Charlotte Smith, eds Elizabeth A. Dolan and Jacqueline M. Labbe
No full textA review of Placing Charlotte Smith edited by Elizabeth A. Dolan and Jacqueline M. Labbe, written by Heather Heckman-McKenn
Leslie Behm interviews essayist and fantasy writer Jacqueline Carey
No full textEssayist and fantasy writer Jacqueline Carey talks about the meaning of the title of her Kushiel Trilogy, how she became an author, her work in progress. She also gives advice to aspiring authors. Carey is interviewed by Michigan State University librarian Leslie Behm. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library
'[T]o strike a little out of a road already so much beaten': Gender, Genre, and the Mid-Century Novel
No full textThis period witnessed the first full flowering of women's writing in Britain. This illuminating volume features leading scholars who draw upon the last 25 years of scholarship and textual recovery to demonstrate the literary and cultural significance of women in the period, discussing writers such as Austen, Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
Picturing Benevolence against the Commercial Cry, 1750-98: Or, Sarah Fielding and the Secret Causes of Romanticism
No full textThis period witnessed the first full flowering of women's writing in Britain. This illuminating volume features leading scholars who draw upon the last 25 years of scholarship and textual recovery to demonstrate the literary and cultural significance of women in the period, discussing writers such as Austen, Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
Recommended from our members
Readers of romantic locality: tourists, Loch Katrine and 'The Lady of the Lake'
No full textRomantic Localities explores the ways in which Romantic-period writers of varying nationalities responded to languages, landscapes - both geographical and metaphorical - and literatures. This focus on how writers explore region and place ties in with current scholarly interest in 'transnational' perspectives. The essays featured in this collection are by scholars from around the world and discuss poetry, fiction, travel narratives and historical and scientific texts. The contributors examine versions of 'home' and 'abroad', as well as issues of 'now' and 'the past'. The concentration on locality is underpinned by explorations of mobility, mutability, sincerity and the real
The hybrid poems of Smith and Wordsworth : questions and disputes
No full textThis essay argues that in titling their debut collections with the hybrid forms of the “elegiac sonnet” and the “lyrical ballad,” Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth (the majority author of the volume he shared with S. T. Coleridge) participate in the late‐eighteenth‐century debate on what makes poetry. Through their collections they engage in conversation with theorists like Hugh Blair and John Newbery, and they use their poetry to advance a new idea: that by merging forms poetry itself evolves. Romantic diversity thus develops from their poetic responses to the efforts of Blair and Newbery to establish fixed and rigid boundaries to poetic form
“National Internationalism: Women’s Writing and European Literature, 1800-30”
No full textIl capitolo è contenuto nel vol. 5 di "The History of British Women Writers", general editors: Jennie Batchelor, Isobel Grundy, Isobel Armstrong, Margaret Ferguson, Felicity A. Nussbaum, Carolyn Dinshaw, Rachel Bowlby, Cora Kaplan
- …
