Women Writers and the English Nation in the 1790s: Romantic Belongings(Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)

Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

Angela Keane addresses the work of five women writers of the 1790s and its problematic relationship with the canon of Romantic literature. Refining arguments that women's writing has been overlooked, Keane examines the more complex underpinnings and exclusionary effects of the English national literary tradition. The book explores the negotiations of literate, middle-class women such as Hannah Mor