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Reviews gender, and historiography in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The many strengths of her approach do entail certain difï¬culties: the appealingly wide chronological and transatlantic scope makes it hard to conduct a thick history of the many social forces prompting major changes in the genre; this capacious outlook can also produce generalizations about speciï¬c works that could be qualiï¬ed, such as a claim for Anna Jamesonâs disapproval of womenâs public activism in Characteristics of Women (1832) that relies on a quotation from a dramatic vignette in which the female speaker actually parodies male attitudes toward public women; the text-centered approach to Victorian writing can elide signiï¬cant differences in authorsâ political and cultural orientations, particularly when juxtaposing American and British texts; while arguments for the increasing sway of Christian piety in non-ï¬ction examples of the genre are persuasive, important divergences from this structure could be examined, such as Mary Haysâs Female Biography (1803) and Lady Morganâs Woman and Her Master (1840). In covering so much ground with such informed knowledge, however, Burstein has constructed a superb foundation from which these additional nuances can be developed. She concludes by noting that âthe tremulous arrival of academic feminist scholarshipâ with
Romanticism – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Oct 1, 2006
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