A wide-ranging and accessible account of the pioneering professional women writers who flourished during the Romantic period.
The contributors to this volume represent the most up-to-date directions in scholarship, charting the ways in which the period's social, political and intellectual redefinitions created new fictional subjects, forms and audiences.
This new edition of The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism has been fully revised and updated and includes two wholly new essays, one on recent developments in the field, and one on the rapidly expanding publishing industry of this ...
The book is clearly divided into three sections, covering: how women learnt to write and how their work was circulated or published; how and what women wrote in the places and spaces in which they lived, worked, and worshipped; and the ...
The volume plots new directions for the study of American literary history, and provides several valuable tools for students, including a chronology of works and suggestions for further reading.
Essays by leading scholars provide a comprehensive overview of women writers and their work in Restoration and eighteenth-century Britain.
Explains the development of Romantic arts and culture in Germany, with both individual artists and key themes covered in detail.
This Companion rethinks food in literature from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to contemporary food blogs, and recovers cookbooks as literary texts.
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing seeks to recover the lives and particular experiences of medieval women by concentrating on various kinds of texts: the texts they wrote themselves as well as texts that attempted to shape ...
“Modelling Mary Russell Mitford's Networks:The Digital Mitford as Collaborative Database.” Women's Literary Networks and Romanticism. Ed. Andrew O. Winckles and Angela Rehbein. Liverpool University Press, 2017. 137–94.
... Trobadora Beatriz nach Zeugnissen ihrer Spielfrau Laura (The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by Her Minstrel Laura (1974)) and its sequel, Amanda: Ein Hexenroman (Amanda: A Witch Novel (1983)), which are both set ...