TY - GEN TY - GEN T1 - The Cambridge companion to women's writing in the Romantic period T2 - Cambridge companions to literature A2 - Looser, Devoney, toimittaja LA - eng PP - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press YR - 2015 UL - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.2864164 AB - "The Romantic period saw the first generations of professional women writers flourish in Great Britain. Literary history is only now giving them the attention they deserve, for the quality of their writings and for their popularity in their own time. This collection of new essays by leading scholars explores the challenges and achievements of this fascinating set of women writers, including Jane Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth, and Mary Shelley alongside many lesser-known female authors writing and publishing during this period. Chapters consider major literary genres, including poetry, fiction, drama, travel writing, histories, essays, and political writing, as well as topics such as globalization, colonialism, feminism, economics, families, sexualities, aging, and war. The volume shows how gender intersected with other aspects of identity and with cultural concerns that then shaped the work of authors, critics, and readers"-- OP - 238 SN - 1107016681 hardback SN - 1107602556 paperback SN - 9781107016682 hardback SN - 9781107602557 paperback KW - English literature : Women authors : History and criticism. KW - Women and literature : Great Britain : History : 19th century. KW - English literature : Women authors. KW - Women and literature. ER -