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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456191103321

Autore

Keane Angela

Titolo

Women writers and the English nation in the 1790s : romantic belongings / / Angela Keane [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000

ISBN

1-107-11987-1

0-511-11849-X

0-511-04992-7

0-511-31049-8

0-521-02240-1

0-511-48432-1

0-511-15113-6

1-280-15472-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 200 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; ; 44

Disciplina

820.9/9287/09033

Soggetti

English literature - Women authors - History and criticism

English literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Women and literature - England - History - 18th century

Romanticism - England - History - 18th century

Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Nationalism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-194) and index.

Nota di contenuto

; 1. Introduction: Romantic belongings -- ; 2. Domesticating the sublime: Ann Radcliffe and Gothic dissent -- ; 3. Forgotten sentiments: Helen Maria Williams's 'Letters from France' -- ; 4. Exiles and emigres: the wanderings of Charlotte Smith -- ; 5. Mary Wollstonecraft and the national body -- ; 6. Patrician, populist and patriot: Hannah More's counter-revolutionary nationalism.

Sommario/riassunto

Angela Keane addresses the work of five women writers of the 1790s and its problematic relationship with the canon of Romantic literature. Refining arguments that women's writing has been overlooked, Keane examines the more complex underpinnings and exclusionary effects of



the English national literary tradition. The book explores the negotiations of literate, middle-class women such as Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams and Ann Radcliffe with emergent ideas of national literary representation. As women were cast into the feminine, maternal role in Romantic national discourse, women like these who defined themselves in other terms found themselves exiled - sometimes literally - from the nation. These wandering women did not rest easily in the family-romance of Romantic nationalism nor could they be reconciled with the models of literary authorship that emerged in the 1790s.