New PDF release: Romantic Women Writers, Revolution, and Prophecy (Cambridge

By Orianne Smith

ISBN-10: 1107027063

ISBN-13: 9781107027060

ISBN-10: 1107566738

ISBN-13: 9781107566736

confident that the top of the area was once to hand, many Romantic ladies writers assumed the position of the feminine prophet to sound the alarm prior to the ultimate curtain fell. Orianne Smith argues that their prophecies have been performative acts during which the prophet believed herself to be licensed via God to result in social or spiritual transformation via her phrases. using a wealth of archival fabric throughout quite a lot of old files, together with sermons, prophecies, letters and diaries, Orianne Smith explores the paintings of in demand ladies writers – from Hester Piozzi to Ann Radcliffe, from Helen Maria Williams to Anna Barbauld and Mary Shelley – throughout the lens in their prophetic effect. As this booklet demonstrates, Romantic ladies writers not just concept in millenarian phrases, yet they did so in a manner that considerably alters our present serious view of the kin among gender, style, and literary authority during this period.

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