Romanticism and Women Poets

This volume takes an important step toward redefining the literary mainstream of the Romantic period.

~Choice

Discloses a much more populous Romantic period that we have yet been accustomed to study and teach.... This impressively coherent collection of essays presents a united front in arguing for a long-needed expansion of the Romantic canon, recognizing women's valuable contributions to its most popular poetic genres.

~Eighteenth-Century Women

Those teaching women poets of the Romantic period must address a number of questions: What was the initial reception of these poets? Why did they fade from public consciousness? What circumstances have led to renewed interest in these writers today? This volume will help us address these issues subtly and creatively.

~Elizabeth Kraft, University of Georgia

Offers a range of positions and methods that challenge many of the major currents in scholarship on romantic women writers. These challenges are fresh, exciting, and absolutely necessary if the study of women writers in the romantic period is to have a vital intellectual future.

~Mary Favret, Indiana University

Absolutely must be read.

~Romanticism on the Net

An excellent collection.

~Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900

This valuable and wide-ranging collection will provide the reader with ample material for further investigation.

~Times Literary Supplement