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NINETEENTH CENTURY FEMINIST THOUGHT
FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON NINETEENTH CENTURY THOUGHT

ASSOCIATIONS

AUTHORS

• Charlotte Smith (1749 - 1806)
• Felicia Hemans (1793 - 1835)
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon [LEL] (1802 - 1838)
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)
• Emily Bronte (1818 - 1848)
• Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
• Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)

CONFERENCES

2007:

2006:

• Gender and Reform in Victorian Culture, Annual Meeting of the Victorians Institute, Converse College, October 20-21

2005:

2004:

2003:

• 11th Annual British Women Writer's Conference: Gendering Philosophy: Body, Mind and Culture in 18th and 19th Century Discourse, Texas Christian University, March 20-23

2002:

2001:

2000:

Annual:

COURSES

• University of London, Birbeck:

  • Nineteenth Century British Women's Poetry (Craciun)

  • Prose of the Romantic Period: Women Writers (Craciun)

JOURNALS

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

• Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 - 1797) (see also Early Modern Feminist Thought)
• Germain Necker de Stael (1766 - 1817) (see also Early Modern Feminist Thought)
• Lady Mary Shepherd (1777 - 1847)
• John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Literature:

    • General:

    • Drama:

    • Poetry:

      • Armstrong, Isobel, and Joseph Bristow, eds.  Nineteenth Century Women Poets: an Oxford Anthology.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1996.
      • Ashfield, Andrew, ed.  Romantic Women Poets, 1770-1838
      : an Anthology.  Manchester: Manchester UP, 1995.
      • Breen, Jennifer, ed.  Women Romantic Poets, 1785-1832
      .  London: Dent, 1992.
      • Higgonet, Margaret, ed.  British Women Poets of the 19th Century. 
      • Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, eds.  Victorian Women Poets: an Anthology.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.
      • Wu, Duncan, ed.  Romantic Women Poets: an Anthology.  1997.

    • Prose Fiction:

  • Philosophy / Theory:

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Literature:

    • Drama:

    • Poetry:

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    • Prose Fiction:

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  • Philosophy / Theory:

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SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Literary Criticism:

    • General:
      • Helsinger, Elizabeth K., Robin L. Sheets, and William Veeder, eds.  The Woman Question: society and literature in Britain and America, 1837-1883.  Manchester: Manchester UP, 1983.
      • Morgan, Thais, ed.  Victorian Sages and Cultural Discourse: Renegotiating Gender and Power. 
      • Shires, Linda, ed.  Rewriting the Victorians: Theory, History and the Politics of Gender. 
      • Wilson, Carol Shiner, and Joel Hafner, eds.  Re-Visioning Romanticism: British Women Writers, 1776-1837.  Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1995.
    • Drama:
    • Poetry:
      • Armstrong, Isobel, ed.  Women’s Poetry: Late Romantic to Late Victorian.  New York: St. Martin's, 1993.
      • Bristow, Joseph, ed.  Victorian Women Poets. 
      • Cosslett, Tess, ed.  Victorian Women Poets. 
      • Feldman, Paula, et al., eds.  Romantic Women Writers: Voices and Countervoices. 
      • Leighton, Angela, ed.  Victorian Women Poets: a Critical Reader.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1996. 
      • Mellor, Ann, ed.  Romanticism and Feminism.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1988.

    • Prose Fiction:

  • Philosophy / Theory:

    • Waithe, Mary Ellen, ed.  Modern Women Philosophers, 1600-1900.  Vol. 3 of A History of Women Philosophers.  Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1991.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Literary Criticism:

    • General:
      • Armstrong, Nancy.  Desire and Domestic Fiction. 
      • Brody, Jennifer.  Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity and Victorian Culture
      . 
      • Curran, Stuart.  "Women Readers, Women Writers."  Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism.  Cambridge: CUP, 1993.
      • Ellison, Julie.  Delicate Subjects: Romanticism, Gender and the Ethics of Understanding.  1990.
      • Gilbert, Sandra, and Susan Gubar.  The Madwoman in the Attic: the Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1979.
      • Helsinger, Elizabeth, Robin Lauterbach Sheets, and William Veeder.  The Woman Question: Society and Literature in Britain and America, 1837-1883. 
      • Homans, Margaret.  Bearing the Word: Language and Female Experience in Nineteenth Century Women’s Writing
      .  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1986.
      • Lootens, Tricia.  Lost Saints: Silence, Gender, and Victorian Literary Canonisation.  Charlottesville: U of Virgina P, 1996.
      • Prins, Yopie.  Victorian Sappho.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1999.
      • Psomiades, Kathy Alexis.  Body's Beauty: Femininity and Representation in British Aestheticism.  Stanford: Stanford UP 1997.
      • Showalter, Elaine.  A Literature of Our Own: British Women Writers from Bronte to Lessing. 
      • The Sublime:
        • Battersby, Christine.  "Stages on Kant's Way: Aesthetics, Morality, and the Gendered Sublime."  Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics.  Ed. P. Brand and C. Korsmeyer.  University Park: Penn State UP, 1995.  88-114.
        • Battersby, Christine.  "Unblocking the Oedipal: Karoline von Günderode and the Female Sublime."  Political Gender: Texts and Contexts.  Ed. Ledger, McDonagh and Spencer.  London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994.
        • Freeman, Barbara Claire.  The Feminine Sublime: Gender and Excess in Women's Fiction.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1995.
        • Mellor, Ann.  "Domesticating the Sublime."  Romanticism and Gender.  London: Routledge, 1993.  85-106.
        • Yaeger, Patricia.  "Toward a Female Sublime."  Gender and Theory: Dialogues on Feminist Criticism.  Ed. Linda Kaufman.  Oxford: Blackwell 1989.
        • Zylinska, Joanna.  On Spiders, Cyborgs and Being Scared: the Feminine and the Sublime.  Manchester: Manchester UP, 2001.
    • Drama:
    • Poetry:
      • Armstrong, Isobel.  "A Music of Thine Own: Women’s Poetry – an Expressive Tradition?"  Victorian Women Poets: a Critical Reader.  Ed. Angela Leighton.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.  245-276.
      • Flint, Kate.  "‘. . . As a rule, I does not mean I’: Personal Identity and the Victorian Woman Poet."  Rewriting the Self.  Ed. Roy Porter.  156-166.
      • Homans, Margaret.  Women Writers and Poetic Identity: Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Bronte, and Emily Dickinson.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1980.
      • Jacobus, Mary.  Romanticism, Writing and Sexual Difference.  Oxford: OUP, 1990.
      • Leighton, Angela.  Victorian Women Poets: Writing Against the Heart.  Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1992.
      • Mellor, Anne K.  "'Am I Not a Woman, and a Sister?': Slavery, Romanticism, and Gender."  Romanticism, Race, and Imperial Culture, 1780-1834.  Ed. Alan J. Richardson and Sonia Hofkosh.  311-329.
      • Mellor, Ann.  Romanticism and Gender.  London: Routledge, 1993.
      • Richardson, Alan.  "Romanticism and the Colonisation of the Feminine."  Romanticism and Feminism.  Ed. Ann Mellor.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1988.  13-25.
      • Ross, Marlon B.  The Contours of Masculine Desire: Romanticism and the Rise of Women’s Poetry.  Oxford: OUP, 1989.
      • Ross, Marlon B.  "Romantic Quest and Conquest: Troping Masculine Power in the Crisis of Poetic Identity."  Romanticism and Feminism.  Ed. Ann Mellor.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1988.  26-51.
    • Prose Fiction:
      • Edmond, Rod.  Affairs of the Hearth: Victorian Poetry and Domestic Narrative.  London: Routledge, 1988.

  • Philosophy / Theory:

    • Nye, Andrea.  "Liberté, Egalité et Fraternité: Nineteenth Century Liberalism and Women's Rights."  Feminist Theory and the Philosophies of Man.  5-30.

On-Line:

UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROJECTS

WWW GATEWAYS

• Craciun, Adriana: Women Romantic-Era Writers or here

• Payne, Charlotte: British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832

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