Revolutionary women writers: Charlotte Smith & Helen Maria Williams

In the 1790s, when Charlotte Smith and Helen Maria Williams were at the peak of their critical reputations, they were known to each other and often cited together approvingly. It was Smith who provided the young William Wordsworth with a letter of introduction to Williams when he visited France in 1...

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Main Author: Keane, Angela ca. 20./21. Jh (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tavistock Northcote House Publishers 2012
Series:Writers and their work
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Summary:In the 1790s, when Charlotte Smith and Helen Maria Williams were at the peak of their critical reputations, they were known to each other and often cited together approvingly. It was Smith who provided the young William Wordsworth with a letter of introduction to Williams when he visited France in 1791 (though she had left by the time he got there). By the end of the decade Smith and Williams were being cited together more pejoratively, as two of a number of women who came to stand for the amoral, sexually suspect and politically naive English 'Jacobins,' who were vilified in the conservative press. Neither were in fact 'Jacobins,' but they were revolutionary. This book looks at how Smith and Williams earned such reputations and at the politics and poetics of the works that reveal Smith to be a self-constructed Romantic and Williams as a mistress of intimate disguise
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2020)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 156 Seiten)
ISBN:9781786945921

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