1st Edition
The Social Imagination of the Romantic Wife in Literature Marriage, Virtue, and Friendship
Introduction
Chapter One. Marriage, Passion, and Justice in English Society
Chapter Two. Reason and Passion in the Education of Virtue
Chapter Three. Portrait of an Intellectual Wife: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
Chapter Four. Portrait of a Lake Poet’s Wife: Sara Fricker Coleridge
Chapter Five. Idyllic Marriage, Motherhood, and Literary Genius
Chapter Six. Circle of Friends and Family
Chapter Seven. National and Domestic Identities
Chapter Eight. Marriage Law and the Rights of Woman: Sacred to Secular
Conclusion: ‘Love in Fairy-land’: Sara Coleridge Coleridge and Mary Godwin Shelley
Biography
Linda L. Reesman is a professor of English at Queensborough Community College, City University of New York. She also teaches as an adjunct associate professor at Hofstra University. Her articles appear in the Coleridge Bulletin, most recently in 2018. Her reviews appear in the Eighteenth-Century Current Bibliography (ECCB) and other publications. Her current essay on Coleridge appears in the 2021 edition of 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era.
