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omant1C1Sm an8 '6m1•n 1• sm EDITED BY ANNE K. MELLOR Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from China-America Digital Academic Library (CADAL) https://archive.org/details/romanticismfemin00mell ROMANTICISM AND FEMINISlvl ROMANTICISM AND FEMINISM EDITED BY ANNE K. MELLOR INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Bloomington and Indianapolis 'Ne are grateful to the Editors for permission to reprint portions of Jane Aaron's essay which originally appeared in Prose Studies. © 1988 by Indiana University Press All rights reserved No pan of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any infonnation storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses' Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. Manufactured in the United States of A1nerica Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Romanticism and fe1ninism. Includes index. l. English literature-19th century-History and cnt1C1sn1. 2. Ron1anticism-Great Britain. 3. Feminis1n and literature-Great Britain- History-19th century. 4. Women and literature- Great Britain-History-19th century. 5. English literature-Women authors-History and criticism. 6. Women in literature. I. Mellor, Anne Kostelanetz. PR469.F44R66 1988 820'.9' 145 87-45406 ISBN 0-253-35083-2 ISBN 0-253-20462-3 (pbk.) l 2 3 4 5 92 91 90 89 88 CONTENTS I. Introduction On Romanticis1n and Feminism Anne K. 1vfe llor 3 II. Silencing the Female Ron1anticisrn and the Colonization of the Feminine Alan Richardson 13 Romantic Quest and Conquest Troping Masculine Power in the Crisis of Poetic Identity i\!Jarlon B. Ross 26 The Cult of Domesticity Dorothy and vVilliam vVordsworth at Grasmere Kurt H einzeirnan 52 III. Writing the Female Harassing the ~fuse Karen Swann 81 The Writer's Ravishment \Vo1nen and the Romantic Author-'The Exan1ple of Byron Sonia Hofkosh 93 vVitch or Pawn Women in Scott's Narrative Poetry Nancy Moore Goslee 115 IV. The Women Respond Individual in Community Dorothy Wordsworth in Conversation \.Vith William Susan J. vVolfson 139 "On Needle-vVork" Protest and Contradiction in Mary Lamb's Essay Jane Aaron 167 VI Contents Romantic Poetry The I Altered Stuart Curran 185 An Early Romance Motherhood and Wo1nen's Writing in Mary Wollstonecraft's Novels Laurie Langbauer 208 Possessing Nature T he Female in Frankenstein Anne K. A1ellor 220 233 CONTRIBUTORS 235 INDEX I. Introduction
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