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050 00 $aPR830.W6$bF74 2013
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100 1 $aFranklin, Caroline,$d1949-
245 14 $aThe female romantics :$bnineteenth-century women novelists and Byronism /$cCaroline Franklin.
260 $aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2013.
300 $axv, 253 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aRoutledge studies in romanticism ;$v18
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [223]-241) and index.
505 0 $aAristocratic romanticism: women travellers, Byron, and the gendering of Italy -- "Thunder without rain": Mary Shelley, Byronic Prometheanism, and romantic idealism -- Cutting The Corsair down to size: Lady Caroline Lamb's Ada Reis and George Sand's L'Uscoque -- "The interest is very strong, especially for Mr. Darcy": Jane Austen, Byron, and romantic love -- "My voice shall with thy future visions blend": Byron's daughters, Lady Byron, and Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall -- "Happiness is not a potato": Byron, Belgium, and the romantic feminism of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Villette -- Harriet Beecher Stowe's romantic racism and her pathology of Byronic masculinity.
520 $a"The nineteenth century is sometimes seen as a lacuna between two literary periods. In terms of women's writing, however, the era between the death of Mary Wollstonecraft and the 1860s feminist movement produced a coherent body of major works, impelled by an ongoing dialogue between Enlightenment 'feminism' and late Romanticism. This study focuses on the dynamic interaction between Lord Byron and Madame de Staël, Lady Morgan, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen, challenging previous critics' segregation of the male Romantic writers from their female peers. The Romantic movement in general unleashed the creative ambitions of nineteenth-century female novelists, and the public voice of Byron in particular engaged them in transnational issues of political, national and sexual freedom. Byronism had itself been shaped by the poet's incursion onto a literary scene where women readers were dominant and formidable intellectuals such as Madame de Staël were lionized. Byron engaged in rivalrous dialogue with the novels of his female friends and contemporaries, such as Caroline Lamb, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen, whose critiques of Romantic egotism helped prompt his own self-parody in Don Juan. Later Victorian novelists, such as George Sand, the Brontë sisters and Harriet Beecher Stowe, wove their rejection of their childhood attraction to Byronism, and their dawning awareness of the significance for women of Lady Byron's actions, into the feminist fabric of their art."--Publisher description.
650 0 $aEnglish fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aFeminism and literature$zEngland$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aRomanticism$zGreat Britain.
600 10 $aByron, George Gordon Byron,$cBaron,$d1788-1824$xInfluence.
830 0 $aRoutledge studies in romanticism ;$v18.
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