Real and Imagined Women in British Romanticism

Real and Imagined Women in British Romanticism uses feminist ideology and deconstructive criticism to reconstruct the cultural context embedded in Romantic canonical texts.To achieve this end, the book undertakes a close textual study of these texts and places them in the intellectual context of Mary Wollstonecraft�s critique of culture. As a result of intellectual contextualizing as well as theoretical applications, the Romantic imagination, as represented by William Wordsworth and John Keats, emerges as the place where gender division and gender certitude break down. This book intervenes in the traditional critical debates about the Romantic imagination to show that the Romantic imagination, as set forth in these texts, registers the vigorous cultural politics of gender and aesthetics that defined the 1790s and continued to exert influence for decades.Real and Imagined Women in British Romanticism 1st Edition is written by Gaura Shankar Narayan and published by Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers. ISBNs for Real and Imagined Women in British Romanticism are 9781453903964, 1453903968 and the print ISBNs are 9781433104114, 1433104113.