Document Type
Article
Language
eng
Format of Original
3 p.; 23 cm.
Publication Date
3-1994
Publisher
University of California Press
Source Publication
Nineteenth-Century Literature
Source ISSN
0891-9356
Original Item ID
doi: 10.2307/2933625
Abstract
"Does Romanticism have a gender?" Anne Mellor poses this straightforward question at the beginning of her latest book, a valuable and most welcome addition to the burgeoning field of English Romanticism and gender studies. Her affirmative answer, supported by examining twenty of the most influential women publishing between 1780 and 1830, allows her to claim that "a paradigm shift in our conceptual understanding of British literary Romanticism occurs when we give equal weight to the thought and writing of the women of the period" (p. i). Indeed, Mellor's response to her initial question succeeds in complicating our understanding of the literary and cultural phenomena that we have perhaps too easily codified as English Romanticism
Recommended Citation
Hoeveler, Diane, "Review of Romanticism and Gender by Anne K. Mellor" (1994). English Faculty Research and Publications. 63.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/english_fac/63
Comments
Published version. Nineteenth-Century Literature, Vol. 48, No. 4 (March 1994): 535-537. DOI. © 1994 University of California Press. Used with permission.