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How Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were affected by their gender roles as seen through "The Mortal Immortal" and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
2020 •
This essay attempts to establish a relationship between literary genres and gender issues in Mary Shelley’s narrative, and intends to highlight the singular nature of Mary Shelley’s writing, which has proved able to continually mislead critical, and conceptual, analysis. Mary Shelley’s novels, and specifically those written between 1819 and 1826, appear to elude any definite attempts to categorise them. Rather, her novels continue to raise new questions and provide fresh challenges. Not by chance, Mary’s novels have been given the most varied definitions: although often branded as autobiographical narrations, they have been classified as historical novels, sentimental novels, historical novels of sensibility, apocalyptic novels, science-fiction novels, Gothic novels, novels of the sublime, utopian novels, dystopian novels, emotive writing, catastrophe writing, and writing of mourning. Such a wide range of labels underlines the novelty and singularity of her creative process, that wo...
IJRAR - International Journal of Research and Analytical Reviews (IJRAR)
BRITISH WOMEN ROMANTIC POETS AND THE QUESTION OF GENDER : A CRITICAL APPRAISAL2018 •
The cultural and historical phenomenon known as Romanticism is unwittingly gender-biased. We have based our constructions of British Romantic literary canon almost exclusively upon the writings of six male poets (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Byron, Shelley and Keats). In the present paper, I have focused on the numerous women writers (such as Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Felicia Hemans) who produced at least half of the literature published in England between 1780 and 1830. This paper argues that a paradigm shift in our conceptual understanding of British literary Romanticism occurs once equal weight is given to the thought and writing of the women of the period. Issues like the culturally enforced relation between gender and genre, the female-specific 'quotidian' themes, the steadily increasing female readership owing to an increase in female literacy, the anxiety of the male Romantics as a result of the popularity of female-authored literary works, feminine romanticism as opposed to masculine romanticism, the emerging cult of sensibility and its gender specificity-all these have been dealt with to drive home the central argument of this paper, that is, the whys and wherefores behind the disappearance of the canon of Romantic poetry produced, in particular, by the female writers of the period.
2019 •
Over the past few decades, gender studies have reinvigorated the way in which we talk about romanticism. The article discusses some of the key developments and their critical consequences. Critical interventions have not only redirected our reading of familiar texts, but also fundamentally destabilized the canon and even made us question the validity of the label 'romanticism' itself. Recent critical work is beginning to uncover a mobile syntax of gender roles. The article focuses on how criticism is beginning to discern an unstable distribution of gender characteristics across the spectrum of literary writing.
Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies
The Nightmare Life-in-Death was She: Concluding Reflections on Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner2023 •
This essay marks a critical departure from my earlier observations in “Imaginary Conversations: Weiskel versus Coleridge”, where I had argued that Coleridge’s Rime traverses the sublime trajectory from Longinus through Burke and Kant, touching across principles of rhetorical annexation, infinite antithesis and moral imperialism in lieu of moral superiority. As a concluding piece, this essay argues how Coleridge’s mariner individuates through the mutually contradictory categories of Divine will and Lilithian inclination, evolving into an androgynous identity to forge a dialectic, which is the narration in the poem itself. Illustrating this requires three arguments, presented as a reflective triad: first, retribution is gendered; second, if the reader concedes that the ‘Moment’ of Impact in Coleridge’s poem is sublime, then sublimity transfigures gender, where impactful gendering is equivalent to feminizing. Thirdly, I argue that impactful feminizing is demonizing, working across the research of Gregory Leadbetter, H.J. Jackson and Robert R. Clewis’s experimental research on the impact of the Sublime and a cursory analysis of Burke and Kant.
European Romantic Review
Romantic aesthetics in Mary Tighe and Letitia Landon: How women poets recuperate the gaze1997 •
EPRA International Journal of Research & Development (IJRD)
The Feminist Responses to Mary Wollstonecraft: A ReadingAccording to the well-known study on Wollstonecrafts reception in the early 20th century, some feminists embraced her unusual life experience as a personal model for their own experiments with, and literary reflections on, love, sex, and marriage. She frequently used the first-person plural to refer to herself as a part of the greater community of women who endure patriarchal oppression in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. There is evidence that many intellectuals regarded Wollstonecrafts contributions to modern women largely from a biographical and literary standpoint. Examples include Virginia Woolf, Ruth Benedict, and Emma Goldman. Numerous important biographical studies of Wollstonecrafts life and literary critiques of her writing have been produced since the 1970s. The second wave of feminist researchers, however, were undoubtedly most influenced by this symbolic interpretation of Wollstonecraft as a personal figure. In this research paper, we aim to investigate the feminis...
The role of women in the society is constantly questioned, and for centuries, women have struggled to find their place in a world that is predominantly male-oriented. Literature provides a window to the lives, thoughts, and actions of women during certain period of times in a fictitious form. In most of the English novels, the female characters appear as more heroic figures than their male counterparts. This paper focuses on the novels of 19th century England. For the discussion, it choses Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Elinor Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility, Jane Eyre in Jane Eyre, Lucie Mannette in a A Tale of Two Cities and Tess D’Urberville in Tess of the D’Urbervilles, as they belong to the group of the most powerful women characters who possess all the heroic qualities like courage, virtue, honesty and strong sense of individuality. The paper argues that they are not only successful in playing their traditional roles as daughters, wives or mothers, but also successful as individuals, retaining their identity under extreme pressure of patriarchic society.
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As the daughter of two notorious Romantic rebels and as the wife of a third, Mary Shelley was encouraged from her youth to “enrol [herself] on the page of fame,” to prove herself by her pen and her imagination. But since Shelley also wanted to conform to the more conventional feminine model—to be modest, self-effacing, and devoted to a family rather than to a career—she developed a prevalent ambivalence toward self-assertion. In the 1818 edition of Frankenstein, this ambivalence surfaces in her criticism of the egotistic imagination and in the grotesque but sympathetic monster that symbolizes its essence; the 1831 revision applies this judgment more forcefully to her own youthful “transgression.” Nevertheless, by characterizing the artist as the victim of an uncontrollable destiny, Shelley also sanctions the very self-expression she professes to regret and elevates the dilemma of the female artist to the status of myth.
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