British Women Writers of the Romantic Period

An Anthology of their Literary Criticism

Mary Waters

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN:
  9780230205772
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350308756
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This timely anthology offers a broad selection of critical texts - introductions, prefaces, periodical essays, literary reviews - written by women of the Romantic era. The collection offers fuel for some of the most topical debates in British Romantic period studies including professionalism, nationalism and the literary canon.

Index

Abelard, Peter (1079–1142), 83

ability, 2, 90, 100, 101, 103, 106, 119, 180

absurdity, 21, 36, 38, 54, 93, 96, 100, 111, 123, 132, 153, 168, 182

affectation, 18, 32, 45, 58, 59, 63, 92, 96, 98, 102, 113, 131, 185, 206

Aikin, Anna Letitia; see Barbauld, Anna Letitia

Aikin, Arthur (1773–1854), 220

Aikin, John (1747–1822), 23, 220, 221–2

Aikin, Lucy (1781–1864), 10, 24, 146–7, 219, 220; criticism by, 147–54

amusement; 18, 19, 29, 31, 66, 72, 73, 76, 95, 98, 112, 124, 131, 147, 156, 198, 200, 217, 218; see also entertainment

Analytical Review, The (1788–1789), 4 n. 6, 10, 13–14, 23, 31 n. 35, 59 n. 15, 86–7, 107, 109 n. 3, 147, 219–20; criticism from, 92–106, 110–11

Annual Review, The (1803–1809), 23, 146, 220; criticism from, 147–54

Artist, The (1807–1810), 220; criticism from, 61–5

Athenæum, The (1828–1921), 10, 156, 157, 160, 164, 221; criticism from, 159–63, 165–77

Austen, Jane (1775–1817), 1, 12 n. 20, 14, 15, 60, 136, 171–4; Sense and Sensibility (1811), 172; Pride and Prejudice (1813), 172; Mansfield Park (1814), 60, 172–3; Emma (1816), 172–3; Northanger Abbey (1818), 1, 173; Persuasion (1818), 172, 173

Baillie, Joanna (1762–1851), 3, 5, 23, 37 n. 28, 77–8, 115–16, 189 n. 30, 221; criticism by, 116–35; Plays on the Passions, 3, 5, 37 n. 28, 77–8, 115–16, 189 n. 30, 221; excerpts from, 116–33

Barbauld, Anna Leti...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Elizabeth Moody (1737–1814)
• Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743–1825)
• Charlotte Turner Smith (1749–1806)
• Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821)
• Mary Darby Robinson (1758–1800)
• Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)
• Mary Hays (1760–1843)
• Joanna Baillie (1762–1851)
• Ann Ward Radcliffe (1764–1823) 136
• Lucy Aikin (1781–1864)
• Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan; 1776?–1859)
• Maria Jane Jewsbury (1800–1833)
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838)
• Harriet Martineau (1802–1876)
• Appendix: Featured Periodicals
• Selected Bibliography
• Index