Drawing on feminist theory, Mary Wollstonecraft's discussion of gendered writing styles, and Jacques Derrida's deconstructive criticism, Narayan (literature, State U. of New York at Purchase)
presents an alternative interpretation of 19th century British Romanticism beyond the canonical male poets and critics who dominated it. Extending critical analysis on the possibility of plural
Romantic voices, she studies and compares the gender issues broached in the works of male and female writers in the sociocultural context of the period: Wordsworth, Keats, Edmund Burke, and
Wollstonecraft. A major critical focus is on the era's stereotyped view of the gendered-based link/divide between the emotional and cognitive faculties. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc.,
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