| Real and Imagined Women in British Romanticism Contributor(s): Narayan, Gaura Shankar (Author) |
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ISBN: 1433104113 ISBN-13: 9781433104114 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $112.58 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 820.900 |
| LCCN: 2009025895 |
| Series: Studies in Nineteenth-Century British Literature |
| Physical Information: 206 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Real and Imagined Women in British Romanticism uses feminist ideology and deconstructive criticism to reconstruct the cultural context embedded in Romantic canonical texts. To achieve this end, the book undertakes a close textual study of these texts and places them in the intellectual context of Mary Wollstonecraft's critique of culture. As a result of intellectual contextualizing as well as theoretical applications, the Romantic imagination, as represented by William Wordsworth and John Keats, emerges as the place where gender division and gender certitude break down. This book intervenes in the traditional critical debates about the Romantic imagination to show that the Romantic imagination, as set forth in these texts, registers the vigorous cultural politics of gender and aesthetics that defined the 1790s and continued to exert influence for decades. |