ABSTRACT
We ground our conversation in two key dates separated by two hundred years: 1779 and 1979. After summarizing the roles played by women in the formation of literary print culture in the late eighteenth century, I turn to the impact of feminist literary theory on the academic field we call “Romanticism.” Susan Wolfson then considers how some key received histories have located women writers in Romantic-era historical culture and how certain women writers of the period conceived of “history” and their place within it. Our conversation closes with some thoughts about the future of Romantic Studies.
