British Women Writers and the Profession of Literary Criticism, 1789-1832

British Women Writers and the Profession of Literary Criticism, 1789-1832
Author: M. Waters
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2004-08-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0230514510

This book examines professional literary criticism by Romantic-era British women to reveal that, while developing a conscious professionalism, women literary critics helped to shape the aesthetic models that defined Romantic-era literary values and made the British literary heritage a source of national pride. Women critics understood the contested nature of aesthetics and the public implications of aesthetic values on questions such as morality, both public and private, the nation's cultural heritage, even the essential qualities of Britishness itself.

Literary History Writing, 1770-1820

Literary History Writing, 1770-1820
Author: April London
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2015-12-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230283330

This investigation of literary history writing between 1770 and 1820 identifies the mode's distinction from canon formation as central to its cultural vitality. Using secret history, memoir and the novel, amongst other sources, it invites a re-thinking of literary history's place in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century print culture.