| Sexual Politics and the Romantic Author Contributor(s): Hofkosh, Sonia (Author), Butler, Marilyn (Editor), Chandler, James (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521027705 ISBN-13: 9780521027700 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $39.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2006 Annotation: Sonia Hofkosh explores the role of gender in early nineteenth-century British literary culture, especially in terms of the simultaneous commercialization and feminization of literature. Examining a wide range of texts, she shows how the development of a female reading audience aroused anxieties in the male writers of the period. The author also considers the ways in which three women writers (Mary Shelley, Sarah Hazlitt and Jane Austen) attempted to negotiate the minefields of a male-dominated literary discourse that rendered the female "invisible." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Dewey: 820.935 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.70 lbs) 204 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 |
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| Publisher Description: Sonia Hofkosh explores the role of gender in early nineteenth-century British literary culture, especially in terms of the simultaneous commercialization and feminization of literature. Examining a wide range of texts, she shows how the development of a female reading audience aroused anxieties in the male writers of the period. The author also considers the ways in which three women writers (Mary Shelley, Sarah Hazlitt and Jane Austen) attempted to negotiate the minefields of a male-dominated literary discourse that rendered the female invisible. |
