ABSTRACT

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.

part |17 pages

Part I Masculine Romanticism

chapter 1|13 pages

1 Gender in Masculine Romanticism

part |139 pages

Part II Feminine Romanticism

chapter 2|8 pages

2 “A REVOLUTION in Female Manners”

chapter 3|25 pages

3 The Rational Woman

chapter 4|20 pages

Family Politics

chapter 5|22 pages

Domesticating the Sublime

chapter 6|37 pages

Exhausting the Beautiful

part |38 pages

Part III Ideological Cross-Dressing

chapter |4 pages

Conclusion Why “Romanticism”?