Women in Romanticism: Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley (Women Writers)
By Meena Alexander.
Description
What did it mean to write as a woman in the Romantic era? How did women writers test and refashion the claims or the grand self, the central 'I,' we typically see in Romanticism? In this powerful and original study Meena Alexander examines the work of three women: Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97) the radical feminist who typically thought of life as 'warfare' and revolted against the social condition of women; Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) who lived a private life enclosed by the bonds of femininity, under the protection of her poet brother William and his family; Mary She...
ISBN(s)
038920885X, 9780389208853
