Romantic Women Writers, Revolution, and Prophecy: Rebellious Daughters, 1786–1826

Awards:   Winner of British Association for Romantic Studies First Book Award 2015 Winner of British Association for Romantic Studies First Book Award 2015. Winner of First Book Award, British Association for Romantic Studies 2015
Author:   Orianne Smith (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   98
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9781107566736


Pages:   296
Publication Date:   01 October 2015
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Romantic Women Writers, Revolution, and Prophecy: Rebellious Daughters, 1786–1826


Awards

  • Winner of British Association for Romantic Studies First Book Award 2015
  • Winner of British Association for Romantic Studies First Book Award 2015.
  • Winner of First Book Award, British Association for Romantic Studies 2015

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Author:   Orianne Smith (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   98
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9781107566736


ISBN 10:   1107566738
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   01 October 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Introduction: reading and writing the End of the World; 1. Verbal magic: an etymology of female enthusiasm; 2. The second coming of Hester Lynch Piozzi; 3. 'I, being the representative of liberty': Helen Maria Williams and the Utopian performative; 4. The passion of the Gothic heroine: Ann Radcliffe and the origins of narrative; 5. Anna Barbauld as Enlightenment prophet; 6. Prophesying tragedy: Mary Shelley and the end of Romanticism; Epilogue.

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'Whatever readers decide about where we are now, Smith's Romantic Women Writers, Revolution, and Prophecy provides an important analysis of how Romantic women wrote on topics and in ways that surprised and often annoyed their critics.' Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 'This excellent study discusses writers who, along with their male counterparts, formed the intellectual vanguard of the period … The meticulous notes are a gold mine for period research; the bibliography is extensive, the index outstanding. In sum, the volume is outstanding in every way … Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and researchers.' J. Coghill, Choice '[This book] corrects the gender imbalance of previous work on literary enthusiasm by shedding light on the previously obscured role of women writers in apocalyptic discourse … a tremendously fluent and incisive study, making surprising and productive use of speech-act theory to bring out the performative dimension of prophetic writing.' Judges' Report, 2015 First Book Prize, British Association for Romantic Studies


'Whatever readers decide about where we are now, Smith's Romantic Women Writers, Revolution, and Prophecy provides an important analysis of how Romantic women wrote on topics and in ways that surprised and often annoyed their critics.' Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 'This excellent study discusses writers who, along with their male counterparts, formed the intellectual vanguard of the period ... The meticulous notes are a gold mine for period research; the bibliography is extensive, the index outstanding. In sum, the volume is outstanding in every way ... Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and researchers.' J. Coghill, Choice


Author Information

Orianne Smith is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her edition of Mary Robinson's Hubert de Sevrac, A Romance of the Eighteenth Century (1796) was published in 2009.

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