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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Charlotte Smith"”.
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Unsex'd Women: The Politics of Transgression in the Poetry of Anna Laeticia Barbauld and Charlotte Smith.
… two women poets of the period, Anna Barbauld and Charlotte Smith and focuses on their much neglected political poetry, in order to demonstrate the ways in which these women writers themselves challenged the expectations about the poetry women should write and transgressed into the public sphere. …
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Systems of Power, Systems of Space: Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Smith, and John Keats in Romantic Greater London
… depicted in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda and Charlotte Smith’s Emmeline, Or the Orphan of the Castle. The second chapter interprets the role of Hampstead in John Keats’ later poems. In works like “Ode to a Nightingale,” Lamia, and “La Belle Dame sans Merci,” a landscape and narrative of exile …
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Re-working Novelistic Sentiment: Barbauld, Smith, Edgeworth, and the Politics of Children's Fiction
… of Anna Letitia Barbauld, Maria Edgeworth, and Charlotte Smith as commentators on 1790s radicalism, pedagogy, and novel conventions, their writings for children and for adults tend to be studied separately. Indeed, despite each writer's familiarity with the others' work, these figures are rarely …
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Natural history and British women writers, 1730-1830
… argues that women, including Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Smith, and Mary Shelley, often claimed scientific superiority to naturalists to destabilize seemingly fixed identities and revise not only biological but also social and literary taxonomies. For example, my third chapter explores Anna …
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Geological bodies: Form and process in romantic poetry and geology
… the poet as a rooted subject. Reading poetry by Charlotte Smith, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth I reveal the cultural entanglements among geology, poetry, and the human body and its history. Putting geological and poetic forms into conversation with one another, I also …
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Representations of the American War of Independence in the late eighteenth-century English novel
… Few of these works have been studied, however. Charlotte Smith, Robert Bage and Helen Maria Williams are better known for their radical responses to the French Revolution than for their fictional engagement with the events of the American War, whilst writers such as Samuel Jackson Pratt, Eliza …
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Exploring The Influence of Burkean Aesthetics on Late Eighteenth-Century British Representations of India and North America
… Owenson, Frances Brooke, Unca Eliza Winkfield, Charlotte Smith, and Robert Bage--were actively redeveloping a political aesthetic theory for the late eighteenth-century by using the landscape of India and North America to discuss Britain, her policies, and her political leaders. These writers …
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The Complete Poems of Anne Bannerman
… of poetry and prose from William Collins, Charlotte Smith, Joanna Baillie, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Matthew Lewis, Sir Walter Scott, and others. The edition also includes a list of textual variants for the material collected in <em>Poems, A New Edition</em>, an index of first lines, a …
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History, revolution and the British popular novel: historical fiction in the romantic age
… the varying ways in which novelists such as Charlotte Smith, William Godwin, Mary Robinson, Helen Craik, Clara Reeve, John Moore, Edward Sayer, Mary Charlton, Ann Thomas, George Walker and Jane West engaged with the historical contexts of the Revolution debate, my discussion juxtaposes the …
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Writing Home: Depictions of Forced Displacement in Romantic Era and Contemporary Poetry
… focuses on Romantic era poets. I consider how Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth responded to the displacements prompted by the consolidation of the French and British nation states, how John Clare expressed his own loss of home in the wake of environmental change, and how Lord Byron …
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Dangerous men: the crisis of masculinity in Romantic women's fiction
… social environment, novelists Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith, and Amelia Opie were not content with stick-figure heroes and villains. Their richly drawn male characters are deeply embedded in late-Georgian controversies over men’s status, responsibilities, and behavior, reflecting what I term …