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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783801803321

Autore

Lokke Kari

Titolo

Tracing women's romanticism : gender, history and transcendence / / Kari E. Lokke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-30061-1

1-134-30062-X

0-203-69231-4

1-280-09587-3

0-203-44932-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in romanticism ; ; 4

Disciplina

809.3/145/082

Soggetti

European fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

European fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

Women and literature - Europe - History - 19th century

Romanticism - Europe

Bildungsromans - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-192) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Translations; Introduction: Romantic abandon; ""The vast tableau of destinies"": Germaine de Stal's Corinne, enthusiasm, and melancholy; ""The sweet reward of all our toil"": Content of mind in Mary Shelley's Valperga; Beyond impossibility: Bettine von Arnim's Die Gnderode, ""an ideal relation realized""; Rewriting Romanticism: George Sand's Consuelo and revolutionary history; Epilogue: Comic flight and the winds of fate: Isak Dinesen's The Dreamers; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

this volume argues that the künstlerromane of Mary Shelley, Bettine von Arnim, and George Sand offer feminist understandings of history and transcendence that constitute a critique of Romanticism from within.