Female Voices

Female Voices

Forms of Women’s Reading, Self-Education and Writing in Britain (1770–1830)

Antonella BRAIDA – Eva ANTAL (edit. director)

2022 – ISBN : 978-2-84867-933-4 – 269 pages – book size : 15x21 cm

Collection : Annales littéraires

Serie : Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research

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Summary

This volume explores the relationship between reading, writing and (self)education in British women writers’ works published between 1770 and 1830. The fourteen contributions focus on Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Hannah Cowley, Maria Edgeworth, Jane Marcet, Anna Jameson, Felicia Hemans, Helen Maria Williams, Anne Radcliffe and Georgiana Cavendish. The essays reveal the great variety of genres chosen by British women writers and their effort to find new ways of expression of self-development. The study of these diverse productions provides an analysis of these writers’ contribution to women’s place in the public space and to intercultural transfers.

Contents

Introduction (Eva Antal and Antonella Braida)

 

Cross-Cultural Connections across the Channel

The Corinne Effect: British Responses to the Reading of Madame de Staël's Corinne (1807)

Hannah Moss

 “Where arts have given place to arms”: The Poetry of Helen Maria Williams in Paul and Virginia (1788)

David García

Self-fashioning in the Age of Sensibility: the Duchess of Devonshire's Educational Writings

Hélène Vidal

 

Writing the Female Self and (Self-)Education

Reflections and Thoughts on Education: from the Lady’s Magazine to Mary Hays’s The Victim of Prejudice (1799)

Dóra Janczer Csikós

Mary Hays's Female Biography: Writing Women into the Public Sphere

A. J. Harding

Education, the Female Body and Feminine Embodiment in Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)

Nóra Séllei

Critical Companions: Arts-and-Sciences Education for Women and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818)

Kiel Shaub

 

Reading and Experiments in Form

War Dramatised in Hannah Cowley’s Epic Poem The Siege of Acre (1801)

Angela Escott

Reading Mary Tighe Reading

Harriet Kramer Linkin

Clara Reeve’s Epistolary Novel in the Service of Female Education: The School for Widows (1791)

Krisztina Kaló

Reading and Female Development in The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)

Angelika Reichmann

 

Women’s Critical and Economic Thought

 Educating to Economic Realities through Fiction: Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen

Marie-Laure Massei-Chamayou

Dispelling Economic Misconceptions: Jane Marcet’s Teaching on Political Economy

Alexandra Sippel

Literary Criticism as Women’s Right Activism in Anna Jameson’s Shakespeare's Heroines

Magdalena Pypeć

 

Notes on Contributors

Index

Author (s)
Antonella BRAIDA (edit. director)
Antonella Braida (IDEA, Université de Lorraine), is lecturer in English and has published on British Romanticism and Anglo-Italian relations.
Eva ANTAL (edit. director)
Eva Antal (Eszterházy Károly Catholic University) is Professor of English Literature and Philosophy and has published on literary criticism and British women writers.
Readership
It will be of interest to researchers and students in Romantic studies and to readers interested in British women writers.
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Support (s)
Ce livre a été publié grâce au soutien des centres de recherche IDEA et TELL, Université de Lorraine