Studies the works of Elisabeth of Bohemia, Catherine Descartes, Mme de Scudery, Emilie du Chatelet and Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, amongst others.
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Studies the works of Elisabeth of Bohemia, Catherine Descartes, Mme de Scudery, Emilie du Chatelet and Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, amongst others.
Pt. 1. Masculine romanticism -- pt. 2. Feminine romanticism -- pt. 3. Ideological cross-dressing : John Keats/Emily Brontë.
Taking twenty women writers of the Romantic period, Romanticism and Gender explores a neglected period of the female literary tradition, and for the first time gives a broad overview of Romantic literature from a feminist perspective.
Taking twenty women writers of the Romantic period, Romanticism and Gender explores a neglected period of the female literary tradition, and for the first time gives a broad overview of Romantic literature from a feminist perspective.
Romantic Visualities offers a culturally informed understanding of the literary significance of landscape in the Romantic period. Labbe argues that the Romantic period associated the prospect view with the masculine ideal, simultaneously fashioning the detailed point of view as …
A New York Times Notable Book. Daring and fiercely original, The Women is at once a memoir, a psychological study, a sociopolitical manifesto, and an incisive adventure in literary criticism. It is conceived as a series of portraits analyzing the role that sexual and racial iden…