Sonia Hofkosh

Sexual Politics and the Romantic Author

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the role of gender in early nineteenth-century British literary culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 491g
• ISBN-13: 9780521496544
• ISBN-10: 0521496543
• Artikelnr.: 35451078

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: invisible girls
1. A woman's profession: sexual difference and the romance of authorship
2. The writer's ravishment: Byron's body politics
3. Classifying romanticism: the milliner girl and the magazines
4. Disfiguring economies: Mary Shelley's gift-book stories
5. The author's progress: William Hazlitt's Keswick escapade and Sarah Hazlitt's Journal
6. Romanticism in the drawing room: Austen's interiority
Notes
List of works cited
Index.