British Women Writers and the Profession of Literary Criticism, 1789-1832
Authors: Waters, M.
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This book examines professional literary criticism by Romantic-era British women to reveal that, while developing a conscious professionalism, women literary critics helped to shape the aesthetic models that defined Romantic-era literary values and made the British literary heritage a source of national pride. Women critics understood the contested nature of aesthetics and the public implications of aesthetic values on questions such as morality, both public and private, the nation's cultural heritage, even the essential qualities of Britishness itself.
- About the authors
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MARY A. WATERS is Assistant Professor at Wichita State University, Kansas, USA. Her previous publications include articles in Eighteenth-Century Studies and Nineteenth-Century Studies.
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'This is a remarkable, landmark study in the field of literary scholarship. There has never been anything quite like it, and what it has to offer is badly needed. Not only will it forever alter the way we see the careers of the particular women reviewers under discussion (Anna Letitia Barbauld, Elizabeth Inchbald, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Moody and Harriet Martineau), but, more significantly, it will transform the way we view the history and development of literary criticism in England... This important contribution to the field of English Romantic studies brings to the fore the collaborative nature of literary production.' - Paula R. Feldman, C. Wallace Martin Professor of English, University of South Carolina
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-23
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The British Common Reader: Critical Prefaces by Anna Letitia Barbauld
Pages 28-56
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Renouncing the Forms: The Case of Elizabeth Inchbald
Pages 57-81
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“The first of a new genus —”: Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, and The Analytical Review
Pages 86-120
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Periodicals and Middle-Class Dissent: Anna Letitia Barbauld and Elizabeth Moody at the Monthly Review
Pages 121-150
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- British Women Writers and the Profession of Literary Criticism, 1789-1832
- Authors
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- M. Waters
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
- Copyright
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-51451-5
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230514515
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4039-3626-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-51850-0
- Series ISSN
- 2634-6516
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VIII, 225
- Topics
