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Elizabeth A. Fay. A Feminist Introduction to Romanticism. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998. Pp. 256. 6 ills. $54.95/$24.95 paper.
Drawing heavily on the many new historical and feminist interrogations of British romantic texts over the last decade, Elizabeth Fay provides a useful overview of the major areas of feminist enquiry into canonical and noncanonical romantic writing. This book is intended as a primer to aid British sixth-formers, American college and first-year graduate students, and anyone teaching British romantic literature for the first time, to integrate what she calls "a feminist frame of mind" (48) into their thinking about these texts. Scholars and advanced graduate students who have followed these debates in the critical and scholarly literature closely over the last decade will find much that is already well-known here. Yet Fay provides several fresh insights into non-canonical texts as well as helpful classifications of the range of women's writing in the romantic period.
Fay begins with the by now well-known paradigm for conceptualizing romanticism, dividing it into three large categories,...
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