The Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers (Routledge Literature Companions) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1472468422 ISBN 13: 9781472468420

Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

The Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers overviews critical reception for Romantic women
writers from their earliest periodical reviews through the most current scholarship and directs users to avenues of future research. It is divided into two parts.The first section offers topical discussions on the status of provincial poets, on women’s engagement in children’s literature, the relation of women writers to their religious backgrounds, the historical backgrounds to women’s orientalism, and their engagement in debates on slavery and abolition.The second part surveys the life and careers of individual women – some 47 in all with sections for biography, biographical resources, works, modern editions, archival holdings, critical reception, and avenues for further research. The final sections of each essay offer further guidance for researchers, including “Signatures” under which the author published, and a “List of Works” accompanied, whenever possible, with contemporary prices and publishing formats. To facilitate research, a robust “Works Cited” includes all texts mentioned or quoted in the essay.

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About the Author

Ann R. Hawkins, assistant provost for graduate education and research at the State University of New York’s System Administration, specializes in book history and textual criticism of the transatlantic nineteenth century. She has published scholarly editions of Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, 1788–1792 (9 vols) and of three Silver Fork novels; edited Teaching Bibliography, Book History, and Textual Criticism; and co‐edited Women Writers and the Artifacts of Celebrity, and Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America. She serves as series co‐editor for SUNY Press’s History of Books, Publishing, and the Book Trades. As Rachael Miles, she writes award‐winning historical romance.

Catherine S. Blackwell researches long-nineteenth-century transatlantic literature, material culture, and legal artifacts, and works as an editorial coordinator for SUNY Press. She has published a scholarly edition of the Anna Seward–Joseph Weston debate from The Gentleman’s Magazine and on British and American women writers, including Louisa May Alcott. In addition to editing the Gentleman’s Magazine chapters in Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, she is associate editor of the digital Victorian Women Writers Reviewed project and co-editor of the 2021 Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America. A former paralegal, she is currently researching criminal-conversation lawsuits and related publications.

E. Leigh Bonds, associate professor and digital humanities librarian at The Ohio State University, holds a PhD with specialization in nineteenth-century British literature and book history. In addition to co-editing this volume, she edited the Town and Country Magazine chapters in Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, published articles on Mary Robinson’s censure of gaming and periodical puffing of Walsingham, and co-curated exhibitions of Romantic works. Her role at Ohio State involves consultations, collaborations, and instruction to support digital humanities approaches in research and teaching, and leading the campus digital humanities community. Her current research projects focus on Robinson’s literary celebrity, pseudonymous signatures, and publishing history.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472468422
• ISBN 13: 9781472468420
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 586
• Editor: Hawkins Ann R., Blackwell Catherine S., Bonds E. Leigh