Title Fracture Feminism : The Politics of Impossible Time in British Romanticism

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (322 p.) Series SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century. Contents Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Uses of History in Wollstonecraft's Afterlives -- A Dead Feminists' Society, Differently Constituted -- Dead Feminists' Society II: "Ithuriel" -- Dead Feminists' Society III: A Letter to the Women of A Letter to the Women of England -- On the Uses of History in "On the Uses of History" -- Chapter 2 Adoptive Siblings across Oceans of Futurity: Paul and Virginia and The Victim of Prejudice -- The Ocean of Futurity: Parergonal Paul and Virginia -- Literature and the Seeds of Future Enslavement Mary Hays: A Vindication of the Rights of the Oedipus Complex -- The Victim of Prejudice/The Children of Oedipus -- Chapter 3 Della Cruscan Time -- The Queer Asynchronies of Mary Robinson's Ainsi va le Monde -- Robinson's Merry Meets Merry's Cowley: The Laurel of Liberty -- The Two Della Cruscas of Two "To Della Crusca"s -- Merry's Polypoetics: An Experiment in Llanguage -- "Ode to Folly"'s Contretempopian Tropes -- Chapter 4 Future Poetry: Clock Time Misses Barbauld, Smith, Richardson, and Hemans -- Barbauld's "Love and Time" and "Washing Day" -- The Hermitage of Beachy Head Richardson: The Hospitality of Harvest-Home -- Felicia Hemans, Between Psychosis and Perversion -- Byronic Destinerrance in "A Spirit's Return" -- Chapter 5 Gulzara and The Last Man: Worldwide-izing the Roman à Clef -- The Temporality of Gulzara -- "Hours Passed-Centuries": The Future Orientation of The Last Man -- Learning to Count: My Three Brothers Paul, Lionel Verney, and Me -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index Summary Shows how feminist writing in British Romanticism developed alternatives to linear time Notes Description based upon print version of record Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-299) and index Subject Feminism and literature. English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Romanticism -- Great Britain Feminism and literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781438484877 1438484879

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