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From Lyrical Ballads to Lyrical Tales: Mary Robinson's Reputation and the Problem of Literary Debt, in Studies in Romanticism
by Ashley J. Cross. 36 pgs.

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Re-Visioning Romanticism: British Women Writers, 1776-1837 ("Mary Robinson's Lyrical Tales in Context" begins on p. 17, and "Becoming an Author: Mary Robinson's Memoirs and the Origins of the Woman Artist's Autobiography" begins on p. 36)
by Carol Shiner Wilson, Joel Haefner. 336 pgs.

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Illustrations

Reading Women's Texts

Mary Robinson's Lyrical Tales in Context

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Becoming an Author: Mary Robinson's Memoirs and the Origins of the Woman Artist's Autobiography

"A Name More Dear": Daughters, Fathers, and Desire in a Simple Story, the False Friend, and Mathilda

Romantic Aspirations, Restricted Possibilities: the Novels of Charlotte Smith

Gender and the Cultural Matrix

Configurations of Feminine Reform: The Woman Writer and the Tradition of Dissent

The Way Above the World: Religion and Gender in Welsh and Anglo-Welsh Women's Writing, 1780-1830

"Domestic Affections" and "The Spear of Minerva": Felicia Hemans and the Dilemma of Gender

Lost Needles, Tangled Threads: Stitchery, Domesticity, and the Artistic Enterprise In Barbauld, Edgeworth, Taylor, and Lamb

Re-Visioning Romantic Aesthetics

Female Botanists and the Poetry of Charlotte Smith

Literary History, Romanticism, and Felicia Hemans

The Politics of Fancy in the Age of Sensibility

The Romantic Scene(s) of Writing

English Romantic Women Writers and Theatre Theory: Joanna Baillie's Prefaces to the Plays on the Passions

Primary Works

Contributors

Index
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Fatal Women of Romanticism (Chap. 2 "Violence against Difference: Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson, and Women's Strength")
by Adriana Craciun. 328 pgs.

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Incarnations of fatal women, or femmes fatales, recur throughout the works of women writers in the Romantic period. Adriana Craciun demonstrates how portrayals of femmes fatales played an important role in the development of Romantic women's poetic identities and affected their exploration of issues surrounding the body, sexuality and politics. Craciun covers a wide range of writers and genres from the 1790s through the 1830s and discusses the work of such well-known figures as Mary Wollstonecraft, as well as lesser-known writers like Anne Bannerman. This examination of women writers' fatal women in historical, political and medical contexts exposes a far-ranging debate on sexual difference.

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Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

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List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

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Introduction

Chapter I: The Subject of Violence: Mary Lamb, Femme Fatale

Chapter 2: Violence Against Difference:Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson, and Women's Strength

Chapter 3: The Aristocracy of Genius:Mary Robinson and Marie Antoinette

Chapter 4: Unnatural, Unsexed, Undead:Charlotte Dacre's Gothic Bodies

Chapter 5: In Seraph Strains, Unpitying, to Destroy:Anne Bannerman's Femmes Fatales

Chapter 6: Life Has One Vast Stern Likeness in Its Gloom:Letitia Landon's Philosophy of Decomposition

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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The Poetics of Sensibility: A Revolution in Literary Style (Chap. 10 "Mary Robinson and the Myth of Sappho")
by Jerome McGann. 222 pgs.

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Jerome McGann's exciting new work represents the most significant intervention in Romantic studies since his The Romantic Ideology. It takes as its prime aim the reading of neglected poetry, principally by women, which qualifies as either poetry of sensibility or poetry of sentiment. It is certain to provoke discussion among anyone interested in the hundred years of poetry it considers. Writers discussed include: Ann Batten Cristall, Benardin, Coleridge, Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Gray, Francis Greville, Felicia Hemans, William Jones, Keats, Ossian, Mary Robinson, Schiller, Shelley, Wordsworth, and Ann Yearsley. This newest work by the preeminent critic of Romantic poetry will attract students and scholars of English literature and Women's Studies.

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Preface

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Introduction

PART I Roads of Excess

I A Disordering of the Senses

2 Coleridge's 'Eolian Harp' and The Motion of Thought

3 Thomas Gray's 'thoughts, That Breathe, And Words, That Burn'

4 Ossian as a Poetry of Knowledge

PART II 'Sensate Hearts': The Poetry of Sensibility

5 Learning by Doing: the Example Of 'the Amourous Lady'

6 Frances Greville's 'A Prayer For Indifference'

7 Ann Yearsley's 'Remonstrance In The Platonic Shade, Flourishing On An Height'

8 Motherhood and the Self Unknown

9 The Literal World of the English Della Cruscans

10 Mary Robinson and the Myth Of Sappho

PART III The 'Feeling Mind' of Sentimental Poetry

Ii Sentimental Grounds: Schiller, Wordsworth, Bernardin, Shelley, Keats

12 Enlightened Minds: Sir William Jones And Erasmus Darwin

13 Sentimentalism as Consumption And Exchange

14 Waking from Adam's Dream: L.E.L.'s Art of Disillusion

15 The Loss of Sentimental Poetry

Conclusion: Starting from Death: The Poetry of Ann Batten Cristall

Bibliography

Index
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Romancing the Reign of Terror: Sexual Politics in Mary Robinson's Natural Daughter, in Criticism
by Sharon M. Setzer. 20 pgs.

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Snapshots of Contradiction in Mary Robinson's 'Poetical Works,' in Papers on Language & Literature
by Robin L. Miskolcze. 14 pgs.

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Studies in the Literary Backgrounds of English Radicalism: With Special Reference to the French Revolution (Chap. IV "Mrs. Mary Robinson: A Study of Her Later Career")
by M. Ray Adams. 334 pgs.

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Chapter I: Introduction

Chapter II: Joel Barlow, Political Romanticist

Chapter III: Mary Hays, Disciple of William Godwin

Chapter IV: Mrs. Mary Robinson: a Study Of Her Later Career

Chapter V: Robert Lovell and George Burnett, Minor Disciples of Pantisocracy

Chapter VI: James Mackintosh, the Revo Lutionary Phase

Chapter VII: Joseph Fawcett and Wordsworth's Solitary

Chapter VIII: George Dyer and English Radicalism

Chapter IX: Samuel Parr, "The Whig Johnson"

Bibliography of Works Relating to the Literary Backgrounds of English Radicalism During The French Revolution

Index
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A Century of Sonnets: The Romantic-Era Revival 1750-1850 ("Mary Robinson (1758-1800)" begins on p. 73)
by Paula R. Feldman, Daniel Robinson. 279 pgs.

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Expertly edited by Paula R. Feldman and Daniel Robinson, this volume is the first in modern times to collect the sonnets of the Romantic period--many never before published in the twentieth century--and contains nearly five hundred examples composed between 1750 and 1850 by 81 poets, nearly half of them women. A Century of Sonnets includes in their entirety such important but difficult to find sonnet sequences as William Wordsworth's The River Duddon, Mary Robinson's Sappho and Phaon, and Robert Southey's Poems on the Slave Trade, along with Browning's enduring classic, Sonnets from the Portuguese. The poems collected here express the full sweep of human emotion and explore a wide range of themes, including love, grief, politics, friendship, nature, art, and the enigmatic character of poetry itself. Indeed, for many poets the sonnet form elicited their strongest work. A Century of Sonnets shows us that far from disappearing with Shakespeare and the English Renaissance, the sonnet underwent a remarkable rebirth in the Romantic period, giving us a rich body of work that continues to influence poets even today.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Notes

Suggested Further Reading

Editorial Principles

Thomas Edwards(1699–1757)

Thomas Warton(1728–90)

John Codrington Bampfylde (1754–96)

Charlotte Smith (1749–1806)

Samuel Egerton Brydges(1762–1837)

William Hayley (1745–1820)

Helen Maria Williams(1761–1827)

William Lisle Bowles(1762–1850)

Thomas Russell(1762–88)

Mary Locke(Fl. 1791–1816)

Ann Radcliffe(1764–1823)

Anna Maria Jones(1748–1829)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772–1834)

Amelia Opie(1769–1853)

John Thelwall(1764–1834)

Mary Julia Young(Fl. 1789–1808)

Charles Lamb(1775–1834)

Mary Robinson(1758–1800)

Charles Lloyd(1775–1839)

William Beckford(1760–1844)

Robert Southey(1774–1843)

Edward Gardner(Fl. 1770–98)

Joseph Hucks(D. 1800)

Anna Seward(1742–1809)

Eliza Kirkham Mathews(1772–1802)

Ann Home Hunter(1742–821)

William Cowper(1731–1800)

Henry Kirke White(1785–1806)

Mrs. B. Finch(Fl. 1805)

Anna Maria Smallpiece(Fl. 1805)

William Wordsworth(1770–1850)

Mathilda Betham(1776–1852)

Susan Evance(Fl. 1808–18)

Martha Hanson(Fl. 1809)

Mary F. Johnson(Fl. 1810; D. 1863)

Mary Tighe(1772–1810)

Leigh Hunt(1784–1859)

Mary Bryan(Fl. 1815)

George Gordon, Lord Byron(1788–1824)

John Keats(1795–1821)

Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792–1822)

Jane Alice Sargant(Fl. 1817–21)

Thomas Doubleday(1790–1870)

John Clare(1793–1864)

Horace Smith(1779–1849)

Thomas Lovell Beddoes(1803–49)

Charles Johnston(D. 1823)

Elizabeth Cobbold(1767–1824)

John F. M. Dovaston(1782–1852)

Sarah Hamilton(C. 1769–1843)

Thomas Moore(1779–1852)

Mary Russell Mitford(1787–1855)

Barry Cornwall (Bryan Waller Procter)(1787–1874)

Joseph Blanco White(1775–1841)

Thomas Hood(1799–1845)

Edward Moxon(1801–58)

William Roscoe(1753–1831)

Charles Tennyson Turner(1808–79)

Alfred Tennyson(1809–92)

Agnes Strickland(1796–1874)

Frederick Tennyson(1807–98)

Hartley Coleridge(1796–1849)

Letitia Elizabeth Landon(1802–38)

Jane Cross Simpson(1811–86)

Felicia Hemans(1793–1835)

Caroline Norton(1808–77)

Ebenezer Elliott(1781–1849)

Frederick William Faber(1814–63)

Frances Anne Kemble(1809–93)

Eliza Cook(1818–89)

Arthur Hugh Clough(1819–61)

William Bell Scott(1811–90)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti(1828–82)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning(1806–61)

Appendix: Mary Robinson's Preface to Sappho and Phaon

Notes

Notes to the Poems and Sources

Index of Titles, Authors and First Lines
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Verse by Eighteenth-Century Women: An Oxford Anthology (Discussion of Mary Robinson begins on p. 468)
by Roger B. Lonsdale. 556 pgs.

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Who were the women poets of the eighteenth century? This anthology presents writings by more than a hundred women, few of which have been published in conventional surveys and anthologies of eighteenth-century verse. Unlike the women who wrote fiction, the vast majority who wrote verse have been ignored and forgotten since their own day. Lonsdale's collection represents a diverse group of female poets from washerwomen to duchesses whose writings began mostly at home as informal and unpretentious verse. As they grew in number and confidence, the women began writing in a great variety of poetic forms and on public as well as private topics, eventually finding their way into print. The collection brings to light the vigor and immediacy with which women poets spoke--from the resentful and melancholic to the humorous and exuberant--about town and country, and love and marriage, opening a new perspective on their age and providing the grounds for a reassessment of a neglected aspect of literature.

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Eighteenth-Century Women Poets

Acknowledgements

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Introduction

Mary, Lady Chudleigh (née Lee) (1656-1710)

Sources and Notes

Index of Titles and First Lines

Index of Authors

Index of Selected Topics
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Romantic Medievalism: History and the Romantic Literary Ideal ("The Female Troubadour: Mary Robinson and the LEL" begins on p. 54)
by Elizabeth A. Fay. 234 pgs.

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The Romantic period was characterized by a new historical self-consciousness in which history, and in particular the medieval, became an important screen for comprehending the present. Recent Scholarship has proposed contending theories for understanding how the historical is used to symbolize the political in the period. Romantic Medievalism takes an original position in proposing a critical difference in how the medieval was used to interpret the present, arguing that, where as the conservative writers identified with the knight of romance, radical writers identified with the troubadour of the courtly love lyric.

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1: Romantic Medievalism: the Ideal of History

2: Cultivating Medievalism: Feeling History

3: The Legacy of Arthur: Scott, Wordsworth and Byron

4: Keats and the Time of Romance

5: The Shelleys on Love

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Index
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Romantic Periodicals and Print Culture ("Mary Robinson, the Monthly Magazine, and the Free Press" begins on p. 19)
by Kim Wheatley. 174 pgs.

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Comprising a number of essays that discuss periodical writing during the British Romantic era this volume provides an analysis of how periodical articles influenced early 19th century debates on social issues like gender, marriage and celibacy.

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Foreword

Introduction

Mary Robinson, the Monthly Magazine, and the Free Press

Correcting Mrs Opie's Powers: The Edinburgh Review of Amelia Opie's Poems (1802)

Novel Marriages, Romantic Labor, and the Quarterly Press

Reading the Rhetoric of Resistance in William Cobbett's Two-Penny Trash

May the Married Be Single, and the Single Happy: Blackwood's, the Maga for the Single Man

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine and the Construction of Wordsworth's Genius

Detaching Lamb's Thoughts

The New Monthly Magazine and the Liberalism of the 1820s

Abstracts

Notes on Contributors

Index
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The Romantic Movement in English Poetry (1909) (Discussion of Mary Robinson begins on p. 61)
by Arthur Symons. 348 pgs.

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