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The Female Romantics

Nineteenth-century Women Novelists and Byronism

By Caroline Franklin

To Be Published June 1st 2012 by Routledge – 192 pages

Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

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Description

This study focuses on the dynamic interaction between Byron and Madame de Staël, Lady Morgan, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen; and the reaction to Byronism of the Brontës and Harriet Beecher Stowe. It thus challenges previous critics’ segregation of the male Romantic poets from their female peers, whose agenda was perceived to be different: domestic and social

Contents

1. Introduction 2. Byron, Nineteenth-century Women Travel Writers and Italy 3. ‘Thunder without rain’: Byronism and Mary Shelley’s Dialectic of Power and Light 4. The Libertine and the Lady Novelist: Ironic Romantics Byron and Austen 5. Sex and Religion: The Brontë Sisters and Libertinism 6. Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Byronic Heroine 7. Conclusion

Author Bio

Caroline Franklin is Professor of English at the University of Wales, Swansea.