Dimensions
130 x 198 x 17mm
Writing in Prose.
A romantic anthology of women's struggle for expression in the realm of men.
The Romantic period saw a deluge of writing by women, and not only in novels and poetry. In essays, journalism, letters and journals, Hannah More, Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth, and other less-known women demonstrated a burgeoning political and intellectual awareness. These women Romantics produced the first concerted expression of feminist thought in modern European culture.
In their prose, women writers of the period applied the common romantic preoccupations to their own lives. They viewed the Rights of Man in the light of the demands of female subservience; their views on marriage redefined the role of women; their interest in women's education emerges from the period's concern with the problem of knowledge; and several, such as Joanna Baillie, brought a fresh approach to literary criticism.
This is a unique selection of texts, with introduction, notes, critical responses, bibliography and chronology of the authors' times.
