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The Female Romantics - Nineteenth-century Women Novelists and Byronism (Paperback)
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The Female Romantics - Nineteenth-century Women Novelists and Byronism (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism
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Awarded the Elma Dangerfield Prize by the International Byron
Society in 2013 The nineteenth century is sometimes seen as a
lacuna between two literary periods. In terms of women's writing,
however, the era between the death of Mary Wollstonecraft and the
1860s feminist movement produced a coherent body of major works,
impelled by an ongoing dialogue between Enlightenment 'feminism'
and late Romanticism. This study focuses on the dynamic interaction
between Lord Byron and Madame de Stael, Lady Morgan, Mary Shelley
and Jane Austen, challenging previous critics' segregation of the
male Romantic writers from their female peers. The Romantic
movement in general unleashed the creative ambitions of
nineteenth-century female novelists, and the public voice of Byron
in particular engaged them in transnational issues of political,
national and sexual freedom. Byronism had itself been shaped by the
poet's incursion onto a literary scene where women readers were
dominant and formidable intellectuals such as Madame de Stael were
lionized. Byron engaged in rivalrous dialogue with the novels of
his female friends and contemporaries, such as Caroline Lamb, Mary
Shelley and Jane Austen, whose critiques of Romantic egotism helped
prompt his own self-parody in Don Juan. Later Victorian novelists,
such as George Sand, the Bronte sisters and Harriet Beecher Stowe,
wove their rejection of their childhood attraction to Byronism, and
their dawning awareness of the significance for women of Lady
Byron's actions, into the feminist fabric of their art.
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