British Women Writers of the Romantic Period: An Anthology of their Literary Criticism

by Mary Waters

Overview

This timely anthology offers a broad selection of critical texts - introductions, prefaces, periodical essays, literary reviews - written by women of the Romantic era. The collection offers fuel for some of the most topical debates in British Romantic period studies including professionalism, nationalism and the literary canon.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350308756
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	12/11/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

MARY A. WATERS is Associate Professor of English at Wichita State Univesity, USA.
MARY WATERS is Associate Professor of English at Wichita State Univesity, USA.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Elizabeth Moody(1737-1814)
Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825)
Charlotte Smith(1749-1806)
Elizabeth Inchbald(1753-1821)
Mary Robinson(1758-1800)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
Mary Hays(1760-1843)
Joanna Baillie(1762-1851)
Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823)
Lucy Aikin(1781-1864)
Sydney Owenson(Lady Morgan; 1783-1859)
Maria Jane Jewsbury (1800-1833)
Letitia Landon(1802-1838)
Harriet Martineau(1802-1876)
Appendix: Featured Periodicals
Bibliography
Index.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

A first-rate collection of texts. This anthology adds something really new and important to what is currently available by the women who were part of the Romantic-era literary community in Britain' - Stephen C. Behrendt, University of Nebraska, USA

'This impressive anthology of women's literary criticism of the Romantic period definitely fills a gap and is to be welcomed. Mary A. Waters has expertly drawn together a coherent selection of reviews and essays from the compendious periodicals and reprint editions of the nineteenth century, and has certainly succeeded in making these accessible to undergraduates as well as researchers, through light but clear annotation and headnotes' - Caroline Franklin, Swansea University, UK

Editorial Reviews

"Afirst-rate collection of texts. This anthology adds something really new and important to what is currently available by the women who were part of the Romantic-era literary community in Britain."--Stephen C. Behrendt, University of Nebraska, USA
"This impressive anthology of women's literary criticism of the Romantic period definitely fills a gap and is to be welcomed. Mary A. Waters has expertly drawn together a coherent selection of reviews and essays from the compendious periodicals and reprint editions of the nineteenth century, and has certainly succeeded in making these accessible to undergraduates as well as researchers, through light but clear annotation and headnotes"--Caroline Franklin, Swansea University, UK"

"A first-rate collection of texts. This anthology adds something really new and important to what is currently available by the women who were part of the Romantic-era literary community in Britain."--Stephen C. Behrendt, University of Nebraska, USA
"This impressive anthology of women's literary criticism of the Romantic period definitely fills a gap and is to be welcomed. Mary A. Waters has expertly drawn together a coherent selection of reviews and essays from the compendious periodicals and reprint editions of the nineteenth century, and has certainly succeeded in making these accessible to undergraduates as well as researchers, through light but clear annotation and headnotes"--Caroline Franklin, Swansea University, UK

"A first-rate collection of texts. This anthology adds something really new and important to what is currently available by the women who were part of the Romantic-era literary community in Britain."--Stephen C. Behrendt, University of Nebraska, USA

"This impressive anthology of women's literary criticism of the Romantic period definitely fills a gap and is to be welcomed. Mary A. Waters has expertly drawn together a coherent selection of reviews and essays from the compendious periodicals and reprint editions of the nineteenth century, and has certainly succeeded in making these accessible to undergraduates as well as researchers, through light but clear annotation and headnotes"--Caroline Franklin, Swansea University, UK

From the Publisher