Genius Envy : Women Shaping French Poetic History, 1801-1900 /

Paliyenko, Adrianna M., 1956-

Genius Envy : Women Shaping French Poetic History, 1801-1900 / Adrianna M. Paliyenko. - 1 online resource (x, 352 pages) : illustrations ; - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-326) and index.

Un/sexing genius -- Literary reception and its discontents -- The other history of French poetry, 1801-1900 -- Anaïs Segalas on race, gender, and "la mission civilisatrice" -- Work, genius, and the in-between in Malvina Blanchecotte -- The poetic edges of dualism in Louisa Siefert -- Louise Ackermann's turn to science -- Marie Krysinska on eve, evolution, and the property of genius.

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"Analyzes the reception of nineteenth-century French women poets, including Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Amable Tastu, Élisa Mercoeur, Melanie Waldor, Louise Colet, Anaïs Segalas, Malvina Blanchecotte, Louise Ackermann, and Marie Krysinska, to recover the diversity of women's voices. Places their contributions within the medical and literary debate about the sex of genius"--Provided by publisher.

9780271077086 9780271079196




Genius.
Women poets, French--History--19th century.
French poetry--History and criticism.--19th century
French poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.


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